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—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

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Who so list believe;
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As men wed ladies by license and leave,
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

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—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

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