"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."

Virtue, Act, Culture, Intellect

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"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."

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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

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"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."

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