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— Juvenal"Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke."
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The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.
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