It is not precisely the same in any two of the States; and varies in each with every revision of its criminal laws.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
No other villa in Europe was ever resorted to from the same motives, and to anything like the same extent, except Ferney; and Voltaire never dreamt of being visible to his hunters , except for a brief space of the day;—few of them even dined with him, and none of them seem to have slept under his roof.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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