America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlight…
Permalink to quote #11 * That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
Permalink to quote #13 I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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