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The Shore Road Mystery (The Hardy Boys, #6)

by Franklin W. Dixon

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“It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other? ”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

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“No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll never be totally happy.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

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“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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