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No other word will adequately express the mingled meanness and wickedness of the cheat.
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Sumner expresses his strong condemnation of dishonesty in political dealings.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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