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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
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Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
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Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
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To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. Charles Spurgeon
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We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
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The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. Carl Levin
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We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education. Fran Quigley
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The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. Louie Gohmert
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I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. Benjamin Franklin
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We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. Abraham Lincoln
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In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford
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Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. Eula Biss
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Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. Eric Holder