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Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

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