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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will…
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the…
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[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a…
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It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war,…
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Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty…
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
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Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two…
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
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The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and…
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,…
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It…
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