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Look at this carefully, and the wonder increases that these proceedings were ever instituted.
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Sumner expresses disbelief that legal proceedings were initiated over such a minor issue.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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