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Where yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
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Born:
June 30, 1685
Died:
December 4, 1732
(aged 47)
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