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As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

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In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten

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