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4 Tobias Smollett Quotes

Tobias Smollett offers lofty, poetic reflections on independence, truth and freedom that feel like a heroic chant.

Tobias Smollett quotes

  1. Facts are stubborn things.

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  2. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

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  3. Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

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  4. Thy fatal shafts unerring move, I bow before thine altar, Love!

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