Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages
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We were just going to do that test until the end of the month, but we are going to extend it through April. I went ahead and left a sign up here and I have little slips with the address on them.
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart.
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The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
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