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That it will pay in beneficent influence tenfold, ay, Sir, a hundred-fold,--that it will make the Post-Office more than ever the powerful agent of human improvement, I cannot doubt.
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Sumner expresses confidence that the benefits of a new postal system will outweigh financial concerns.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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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