Saint Benedict

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    The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ... liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)