Nothing so wonderfully

Nothing so wonderfully
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
  

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Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.
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Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
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