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equally comforting to other people in affliction
We received a large number of tender letters of condolence, which gave us so much comfort that my wife suggested that they should be printed with the hope that they might be equally comforting to other people in affliction.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

each citizen takes of politics is an
In every free state, in all countries that enjoy republican institutions, the [Pg 120] view which each citizen takes of politics is an essential ingredient in the estimate of his ethical character.
— from Shelley at Oxford by Thomas Jefferson Hogg

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