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    I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.
    George III (1738–1820)

    He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)

    There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)