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“That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.”

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“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”

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Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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Little leaks sink the ship.

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

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