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    To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
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    A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
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    Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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