Deserves to be preached to death by wild curates.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.Sydney Smith
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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No child is born a criminal no child is born an angel he's just born.
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