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"The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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