“There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.”
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
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