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I inclose the catalogue of your friend Jackson the quakeers library. Perhaps you have already heard that the owner cut his throat in the wine-cellar, where he was accustomed to retire after the family had gone to bed: and there, as one of his servants observeed, was his "dear head found lyeing among the hogsheads." You see the various ways there are of creeping out of the world.

— Joseph Ritson

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Of every species of pride or expence I abominate and detest that most which is lavished on the dead.

Does the expression Jugulatio, orjugulatus est, in the Ulster annals, imply strictly the cutting of a mans throat, or merely the putting him to death?

Copies honestly come by are a thousand times more eligible than swindled originals.

It has been frequently said that fools make knaves; it is equally true, I believe, that credulity is the parent of falsehood.

Your reflections are still worse founded, and could only arise from your considering me in the light of a pettyfogging attorney.

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