The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.

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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the moment after death.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

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