"I have not read far in the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.
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“Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.”
“What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.”
“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
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