"Listen, there is no way for me to turn, even though justice is most clearly on my side."
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai
That I am strictly just in my criticism of Mr Freeman's attitude at the Conquest, is, I think, abundantly manifest, when even so ardent a democrat as Mr Grant Allen admits that a people so helpless, so utterly anarchic, so incapable of united action, deserved to undergo a severe training from the hard task-masters of Romance civilization.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round
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