The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

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Books are humanity in print.

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They resented the patronage they depended upon.

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Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

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Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

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Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

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The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

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