“940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Source:(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 154).
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Source: Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu (1899), I
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