Spanish Empire/the Bourbon Spanish Empire - Reform and Recovery 1700-1808

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    “As the Spanish proverb says, “He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.” So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    “With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)