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"If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church."
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"That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases."
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