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I pray the gentleman to quote authority; not to put too heavy a load upon his own judgment; he might sink under the weight.
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Alexander critiques a colleague's reliance on personal judgment instead of authoritative sources during a debate.
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And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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