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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Vices
Fail
Failing
Reformer
Unless
Reformers
Virtue
Invent
Inspirational
Substitutes
Something
Virtues
Attractive

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