1773-1833.
_Speeches_, 1828.
A wise and masterly inactivity.
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WASHINGTON IRVING.
_The Creole Village_.
The Almighty Dollar.
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FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.
1613-1680.
_Maxim ccxvii_.
Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice
pays to virtue.
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JOSEPH FOUCHE.
1763-1820.
It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
"_The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church_."
"Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis
Christianorum." _Tertullian_ _Apologet_., c. 50.
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"_Corporations have no souls_."
"They (Corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed nor
excommunicate, for they have no souls."--_Lord Coke's Reports_
Part x. p. 32.
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"_A Rowland for an Oliver_."
"These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve
peers; and their exploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally
extravagant by the old romancers that from thence arose that saying
among our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a 'Rowland for his
Oliver,' to signify the matching one incredible lie with
another.
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