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— Henry David Thoreau"There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain."
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Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.
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