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My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to l

My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher

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If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher

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