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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)