“If I can anyway contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.”

Statement in The Spectator (1711), as quoted in The Reign of Queen Anne (1902) by Justin McCarthy
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