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- Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
- Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors…
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
- Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is…
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