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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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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
— Oscar Wilde
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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