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"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

James Harvey Robinson, American Historian

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"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

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