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" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
Victor Hugo
Strength
Lack
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" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "
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" What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! "
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" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "
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