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Philip Hone

"These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered."

Philip Hone, American Politician
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"These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

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