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• I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks
• In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain… — David McCullough
• I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils… — Hugo Black
• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy
• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson
• The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Unknown Author
• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson
• To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a… — Joseph J. Ellis
• I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli
• Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow
• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis… — Noah Feldman
• The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M H Abrams

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