I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil. The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3951872Full view - About this book
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| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 660 pages
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| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
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