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" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "

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