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" I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling. "

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" It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. "

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" The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. "

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