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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Lincoln Steffens

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

Lincoln Steffens

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

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The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

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I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

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I have been over into the future, and it works.

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If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

Lincoln Steffens

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

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My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

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The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

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I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

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My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

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The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.

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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Lincoln Steffens