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"He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing."
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Source: 'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5
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