Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour. . . If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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