I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
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The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
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A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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