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    “The “Communism” of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)