Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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What is it we all seek for in an election To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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