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“I have very lately read the Prince of Abyssinia [Samuel Johnsons Rasselas]MI am almost equally charmed and shocked at itthe style, the sentiments are inimitablebut the subject is dreadfuland, handled as it is by Dr. Johnson, might make any young, perhaps old, person trembleO heavens! how dreadful, how terrible it is to be told by a man of his genius and knowledge, in so affectingly probable a manner, that true, real happiness is ever unattainable in this world!”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“The new grammar of race is constructed in a way that George Orwell would have appreciated, because its rules make some ideas impossible to expressunless, of course, one wants to be called a racist.”
—Stephen Carter (b. 1954)
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