Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
TACITUSThe unknown always passes for the marvellous.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
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Following Emporer Nero’s command, “Let the Christians be exterminated!:” . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
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In valor there is hope.
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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