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"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."

Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

Pity, May, Melancholy, Smile

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"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."

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"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other."

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"My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?"

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"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."

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"Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?"

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Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

Pity, May, Melancholy, Smile

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