The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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