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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; ...
Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife's nightgown. ...
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright good ...
I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if he ...
You should try to understand every thing you see and hear; to act and judge for yourselves; to remember you each have a soul of yo ...
They plough, harrow, reap, dig, make hay, rake, bind grain, thresh, chop wood, milk, churn, do anything that is hard work, physica ...
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experi ...
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
And he had an ethical bypass at birth.
If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know ...
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