4 Quotes by Henry Brooke

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    A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

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    Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

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    For righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

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    In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India

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