"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."
-William Graham Sumner
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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.“
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