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Quotes from Rienzi: The Last of the Tribunes — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803–1873 England

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... if the breast be uneducated, the gift may curse the giver; and he who passes at once from the slave to the freeman may pass as rapidly from the freeman to the ruffian.

Rienzi: The Last of the Tribunes (1835)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.