James Gordon Bennett

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    True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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    Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
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    You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.
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