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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
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The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other…
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Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a…
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,…
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Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
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