"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."

Satire, Liberty, Politics, Irony

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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."

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