“There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.”
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
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