Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
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Wealth begins ... in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood....
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Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
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Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts Hast not thy share On winged feet, Lo it rushes thee to meet ...
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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In England, The cold, inconsiderate of persons ... benumbs your feet....
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