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“He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said of them, Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“We term sleep a death ... by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.”
—Thomas Browne (16051682)
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