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I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county; but I would exert myself to improve the people who were under my influence.

— Fowell Buxton Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849)

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How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!

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