"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
-Samuel Johnson
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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.“
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
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