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“I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my armsnevernevernever!”
—William Pitt, The Elder, Lord Chatham (17081778)
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