"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions."

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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

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“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

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