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No man can lose what he never had.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men... On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.

John Adams

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Adams, John. Spoken at the argument in defense of the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials. Boston Massacre Trials. 4 Dec. 1770, Queen Street courtroom, Boston, MA, USA.

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We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

George W. Bush

Address to Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001

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Bush, George W. Address to joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 20 Sept. 2001, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears -
Ah, she doth depart.

William Blake

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

On Joseph McCarthy.

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Murrow, Edward R. Private comments to staff prior to broadcast of See It Now. 9 Mar. 1954, New York City, NY, USA.

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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land.

Washington Irving

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Irving, Washington. "The Creole Village." Knickerbocker Magazine, 12 Nov. 1836.

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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1873, sect. 4.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems. Dover Publications, 1992, sect. 4.

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Horace Walpole

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Horace Mann. 27 March 1772.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Horace Mann." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George Lam. Vol. 23, Yale University Press, 1967.

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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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The sky is darkening like a stain;
Something is going to fall like rain,
And it won't be flowers.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "The Witnesses." Listener’s poetry supplement, 12 July 1933.

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I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Man Who Was Thursday." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1904.

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