Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.
Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''
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