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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."

"But I came from a conservative Republican background."

"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."

"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."

"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."

"I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican."

"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."

"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."

"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."

"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."
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