“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
Author
Thomas W. Higginson
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“When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.”
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