the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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