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George Canning Quotes: Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
         

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.


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