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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,) To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends
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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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