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““It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.””

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I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.

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“Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like…

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