"The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies."

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Oliver Ellsworth

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“I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.”
“Beauty is the gift of God”
“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”
“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.61, University of Chicago Press
“I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.”
“I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”
“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”

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