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Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man's vote.
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)
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Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.
William Melmoth
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The new proprietors [of New Jersey] inveigled many over by this tempting account of the country: that it was a place free from those three great scourges of mankind—priests, lawyers, and physicians. Nor did they tell a word of a lie, for the people were as yet too poor to maintain these learned gentlemen.
William Byrd II
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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