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The military never has been known for precision, and so they call someone a private who has less privacy in their life than most incarcerated criminals do in theirs.
The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
Who are the militia? _are they not ourselve...
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. -- Proverb
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
The mills of the gods grind very slow but exceedingly fine.
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
-- Ovid (43 BC) -- Fasti, iv, 311...
The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far. -- Chinese proverb
The mind grows by what it feeds upon.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
-- Colin Wilso...
The mind is an errogenous zone.

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