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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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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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"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
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