Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading.

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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

237

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

204

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

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