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“Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.”

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Roger L'Estrange

Roger L'Estrange was an English author and translator, renowned for his translation of the Bible into English, which was widely used during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was also a playwright and poet, contributing to the literary scene of his era. more

“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”

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“There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.”

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Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.”

Exercise Tyrants Arbitrary

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

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