Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Great Regulars: How few there are to be found in modern times

who can say the same, or whose conduct is consistent with such a profession! We are now become so much Englishmen, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Spaniards, or Germans, that we are no longer citizens of the world; so much the natives of one particular spot, or members of one petty society, that we no longer consider ourselves as the general inhabitants of the globe, or members of that grand society which comprehends the whole human kind.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: On national prejudices --Oliver Goldsmith

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