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• Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
• The father of confederation is deadlock.
• We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but…
• The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
• Above all nations is humanity,
• Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all…
• Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
• There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black…
• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that…
• The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid…
• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
• No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail…

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