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I want to put my little affairs in order that I may live, if I am to live, or at least die, in comfort...and do, my good friend, let me then have a final account with you; for I am strongly inclined to suspect that we shall never meet again.

— 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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