Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William Hazlitt
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- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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- Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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