M14 Rifle/history

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    Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
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    We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
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