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Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

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Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.
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