As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
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