4 Quotes by Josiah Bartlett

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    Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

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    Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

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    Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

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    Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can’t.

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