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Quote by Heywood Broun
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipato

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. – John Dryden

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