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There will be enough to consume the cloths of both Belgium and France.
The nation will be better clothed; that is all. -- I will think on this, for it is somewhat confused in my head. -- After all, as far as clothes go, the main thing is to be clothed.
Your limbs are your own, and not the manufacturer's.
To shield them from cold is your business and not his.
If the law takes sides for him against you, the law is unjust, and you allowed me to reason on the hypothesis that what is unjust is hurtful. -- Perhaps I admitted too much; but go on and explain your financial plan. -- Then I will make a tariff. -- In two folio volumes? -- No, in two sections. -- Then they will no longer say that this famous axiom "No one is supposed to be ignorant of the law" is a fiction.
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