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"Anyhow it was a characteristic Renaissance gesture, to sack and burn the city and palace but to save fine books from the flames"

"Iberian civil war follows, in recent centuries, a pattern. It is a war between constitutionalism and absolutism, liberty and tyranny, liberalism, often with a little Freemasonry thrown in, and clericalism, in brief, between Left and Right."