“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
Source: Passion and Purity
“Of all our feigned affections, there is none
So hollow, selfish, and injurious,
As what we christen Patriotism.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. ii; p. 15.
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