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He said, “Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and wanted to be a smart modern thinker; and yet affirms for a truth [what everyone already knows], that when a ship arrives there all the inhabitants are seized with a cold.”

James Boswell, Life of Johnson A.D.1768, Aetat 59

Starting from unlimited freedom I arrive at unlimited despotism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Devils