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No subtlety of technicality, no ingenuity of citation, no skill in arranging texts of statutes, can make it anything else.
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Sumner asserts that no legal technicality can justify the act of breaking a financial agreement.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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