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It was an age of mighty dramatists, of divine poets, of statesmen wise and magnanimous, if not great, of seamen who made England, not Spain, the ruler of the seas.
— from The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
she cried presently, with tears in her voice, "may I not go out soon into the garden, and down to the seat under the lindens by the river?"
— from Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri
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