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Modesty And Reverence Are No Less Virtues Of Freemen Than The Democratic Feeling Which Will Submit Neither To Arrogance Nor To Servility.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Modesty And Reverence Are No Less Virtues

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Modesty And Reverence Are No Less Virtues Of Freemen Than The Democratic Feeling Which Will Submit Neither To Arrogance Nor To Servility.

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