I did not know that thou wert dead before; I did not feel the grief I did sustain;...
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
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You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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