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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism."
"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
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