French Politician

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“An old French sentence says, “God works in moments,”M”En peu d’heure Dieu labeure.” We ask for long life, but ‘t is deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)