The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. (Thomas Carlyle)

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Thomas Carlyle

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