"The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us."

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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson