Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? – Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
