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“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
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“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
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