It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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