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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"I was deaf, insensible, rock, adamant, the bailiffs could make no impression on my hard heart, for I effectually kept my liberty by never stirring out of the room."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1760-1761, 1762

"Those storms may discompose in proportion as they are strong, or the mind is pliant to their impression."

— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)

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Date: 1790

"This principle ought even to be more strongly impressed upon the minds of those who compose the collective sovereignty than upon those of single princes."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.