“The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.”

Bk. III, ch. 3.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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