"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."
-Thomas W. Higginson
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.“
-Thomas W. Higginson
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