…Mon cousin est parti avant-hier pour Paris. Il y arrivera à peu près en même temps que cette lettre et vous remettra une bonne moitié de l’article que je fais pour compléter la brochure. Mais cet article a pris un tel développement que nous ne pouvons lui…

— Frédéric Bastiat
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"Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
The Past is also stored in thee,
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Earth's rsum entire floats on thy keel,…

— Frederick Jackson Turner
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S. AUG. (Traité 28 sur S. Jean.) Les fidèles disciples de Jésus-Christ devaient dans la suite chercher dans des retraites cachées un asile contre la fureur de leurs persécuteurs, et c’est pour justifier cette fuite prudente, que…

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A school library is, in fact, “the room where it happens.” 

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Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left for us but to organise and fight?

— Ralph Hosea Chaplin
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"When taken in the hand, the under surface of the animal soon becomes denuded of the beautiful pearly white it previously had, and at that time appears like a small transparent bladder, in which a number of air-bubbles are observed, together with the…

— Thomas Rymer Jones
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The story went, after a while, that Judson Clark had been refused, and was taking his refusal badly. Reporters saw him, carelessly dressed, outside the stage door waiting, and the story went that the girl had thrown him over, money and all, for her…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Duprat, évêque de Clermont, demande ensuite qu’on prie
Dieu pour le roi de France comme pour l’empereur, puisque ce
roi a été invité au concile ; mais il est refusé, sous prétexte qu’il
aurait fallu prier aussi pour les autres rois, et qu’on aurait indisposé…

— Voltaire
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Then, mother of great empires, Rome,
City of the majestic past,
That o'er far leagues of alien foam
The shadows of her eagles cast,
Imperious still; impending, vast,
The Colosseum's curving line;
Pillar and arch and colonnade;
St. Peter's consecrated…

— Clinton Scollard
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See Bayle, Dictionnaire; R. Dareste, Essai sur F. Hotman (1850);
E. Grégoire, in Nouvelle Biog. générale (1858).  (A. Go.*)

— Alexander Gordon (1841-1931)
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Ce n’est point à moi à prononcer sur la question, si l’Espagne ne pouvant faire le commerce des Indes par elle-même, il ne vaudroit pas mieux qu’elle le rendît libre aux étrangers. Je dirai seulement qu’il lui convient de mettre à ce commerce le moins…

— Montesquieu
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