All too will bear in mind this sacred principle that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail that will to be rightful must be reasonable, that the minority possess their equal rights which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.

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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I cannot live without books.

I cannot live without books.

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law, than that he should escape.

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