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"I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian."
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"Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?"
— Orson Scott Card
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