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“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
—Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages isImbecility: imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments: victims of gravity, customs and fear. This gives force to the strong,that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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