The first blow is half the battle.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.Oliver Goldsmith
This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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