It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of societySamuel Johnson
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope
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OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
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