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The all-searching eye of the French revolution looks to every part of Europe, and every quarter of the world, in which can be found an object either of acquisition or plunder. Nothing is too great for the temerity of its ambition, nothing too small or insignificant for the grasp of its rapacity.

— William Pitt the Younger

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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

It is with eloquence as with a flame; it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's mutton pies.

I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.

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