Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-07-09) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.”
The First Step http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=145&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: Just to be on the first step<br>should make you happy and proud.<br>To have come this far is no small achievement:<br>what you have done is a glorious thing.<br>Even this first step<br>is a long way above the ordinary world.<br>To stand on this step<br>you must be in your own right<br>a member of the city of ideas.<br>And it is a hard, unusual thing<br>to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.<br>Its councils are full of Legislators<br>no charlatan can fool.
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Wall Street Journal (13 November 1962), Notable & Quotable , p. 18
1960s
Context: It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.