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Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.


Thomas Holcroft

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THOMAS JEFFERSON The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has ...
THOMAS GUTHRIE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...
THOMAS PAINE And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will...
THOMAS PAINE The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To...
THOMAS PAINE It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm ...
THOMAS MERTON Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...
THOMAS MERTON The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS Every man loves what he is good at.
THOMAS SHADWELL