Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general Impossible and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The sun's rim dips the stars rush out At one stride comes the dark With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
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