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“Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were tempered with loves sighs.
O then his lines would ravish savage ears,
And plant in tyrants mild humility.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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