“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
Volume iii, p. 335
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and pressed downe the more it spreadeth.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 46. Compare: "The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows", William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, act ii, sc. 4.
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