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“Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majesticallywhile simulating a triumphant march forwardthan it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?”
—Alexander Herzen (18121870)
“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.”
—Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon, 2:5.
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
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