Cloistered Emperor Sutoku

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    There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan.
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    The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
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