"They who have been bred in the school……" — Henry David Thoreau
"They who have been bred in the school of politics fail nowand always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates."
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Henry David Thoreau
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