My vigour relents, I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.Edmund Burke
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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