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Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws.

William Penn

Frame of Government

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Penn, William. Frame of Government. 1682, preface.

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Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

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Penn, William. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. London: Thomas Northcott, 1693, pt. 1, no. 142.

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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Christian Morals. Cambridge: University Press, 1716, pt. 1, sect. 34.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Christian Morals (1716)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sec. 34.

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There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

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Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

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He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

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There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

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There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.