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Let him remember that the swagger of Bob Acres and the ferocity of the Malay cannot add dignity to this body.
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He criticizes the lack of dignity in the behavior of certain senators, comparing them to fictional characters.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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