We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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