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When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.
— John Dryden
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