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Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

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
Giving
Liberty
Settling
Announcing
Real
Lying
Uncomfortable
Racket
Life
Living
Glad
Freed
Give
Difficulty
Returned
Women
Slave
Settle
May
Blessing
Slaves
Live
Masters
Difficulties
Many
Unless
Awakening
Emancipated

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