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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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