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Erasmus1466–1536

Erasmus on liberty

I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.

Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377

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