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" The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. "

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" Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. "

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" The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. "

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