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Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

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
Aware
Intelligent
Muffled
Persons
Respectability
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Trivial
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Mediocre
Every
Bent
Fairly
Price

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