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Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

C. S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (1966).

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On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

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