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"What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are … those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less." Rate this Quote
"Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat." 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote







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