Quote#Politics & Power
My object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find a…
Quote byHenry Spencer Ashbee · 1834–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877), Introduction (pp. lii–liii).
English (original)
My object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find a home for the pariahs of every nation. I do not then hesitate to notice the catchpennies hawked in the public streets, as well as the sumptuous volumes got up for the select few, and whose price is counted in guineas. I embrace indeed that which should be avoided as well as that which should be sought.
— Henry Spencer Ashbee
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