"But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.”
“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.”
“And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.”
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“Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.”
“O, the difference of man and man!To thee a woman's services are due.”
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”
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“Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?”
“I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.”
“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”