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"Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."
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Rufus ChoateA book is the only immortality. — Rufus Choate
"A book is the only immortality."
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Rufus Choate was an American lawyer, orator, and senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is regarded as one of the greatest American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over a thousand cases in a lifetime practice extending to virtually every branch of the law then recognized. Notably, he was one of the pioneers of the legal technique of arousing jury sympathy in t
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"Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument."
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"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union."
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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."
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"The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good."
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"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
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