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Here also is its great aliment; here are the seeds of the very evil it is sometimes vainly supposed to avert.
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Sumner warns that military preparations can create the very dangers they aim to prevent.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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