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Quote Left When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. Quote Right
Quote Left The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late. Quote Right
Quote Left Pride the first peer and president of hell. Quote Right
Quote Left Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Quote Right
Quote Left Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Quote Right
Quote Left When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Quote Right
Quote Left Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. Quote Right
Quote Left Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. Quote Right

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