Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes …

John Dryden
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. ✨ John Dryden (1870). The Poetical Works of John Dryden, p.230
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. ✨ John Dryden (1870). The Poetical Works of John Dryden, p.230

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