The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne
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  1. Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.
  2. While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.
  3. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
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