Citations:conservative

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English citations of conservative

  1. (adjective)
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. V, The English
      All great Peoples are conservative; slow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities; deeply and forever certain of the greatness that is in LAW, in Custom once solemnly established, and now long recognised as just and final.
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