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With respect to charity jobs, I am no more fond of them than yourself, and beg that this may be the last I receive from you, as I plainly perceive, if you can get an agent to do your business for nothing, it will in a very little time consist of nothing else but charity jobs.

— 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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