An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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