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“Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world—it is thin.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)