First, a Patent Office
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. A newspaper has its faults, and plenty of them, but no matter, it's hark from the tomb for a dead nation, and don't you forget it. You can't resurrect a dead nation without it; there isn't any way.
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Context: Hank lays out his order of priorities for bringing progress to sixth-century England.
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Source: Chapter IX