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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley on Independence Day

d. 1881 England

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That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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