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We love peace as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

— Douglas William Jerrold

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The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

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