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"People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."

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