“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. “The great British Libraryan immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. So Im for keeping the thing going while things are stirring because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. “There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741≡794) “Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes. Famous quotes containing the words collection, masters, classic and/or universal:
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