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“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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