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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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The Fool had stuck himself up one day, with great gravity, in the King's throne; with a stick, by way of a sceptre, in one hand, and a ball in the other: being asked what he was doing? he answered 'reigning'. Much of the same sort of reign, I take it would be that of our Author's [Blackstone's] Democracy.
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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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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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Born:
February 15, 1748
Died:
June 6, 1832
(aged 84)
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