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    “The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Scholars planning a rebellion could never succeed even in three years.”
    —Chinese proverb.