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"The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength,--the floating bulwark of our island."
Sir William Blackstone / Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Chap. xiii. § 418.

Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Chap. xiii. § 418.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary."
Sir William Blackstone / Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Chap. xviii. § 472.

Commentaries. Vol. i. Book i. Chap. xviii. § 472.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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