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464. Alarm
"Let us not imagine evils which we do
not feel, nor injure life
by misrepresentations. I cannot bear that querulous eloquence
which threatens every city with a siege like Jerusalem, that
makes famine attend on every flight of locusts, and suspends
pestilence on the wing of every blast that issues from the
south."
Johnson: Rasselas [Rasselas]
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