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“ The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ”

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For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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Hell is truth seen too late.

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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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