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Public opinion never dies every day
Public opinion never dies; every day it censures vice, and extols the beauty and advantages of virtue; it reigns over governments and nations, and exercises the powerful ascendency of an element which is found universally diffused.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

peu ovalaire nettement dessinée en dedans
Après cette série de taches marginales, il existe sur la côte elle-même, avant l’angle externe de la seconde aile, une large éclaircie blanche, quelque peu ovalaire, nettement dessinée en dedans, et posée sur la place qu’à la première aile doit occuper la disco-cellulaire et le commencement des deux premières supérieures.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder


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