The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
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