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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

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The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
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History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
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