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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.

Anthony Trollope

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Atlantic Before Country Cross Fall Invariably Journey Love Over Woman
When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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