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We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

William Allen White

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William Allen White
Age: 75 †
Born: 1868
Born: February 10
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
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