If you entertain the idea that this is a false view of our relative positions, and that your eminence lifts you above both comradeship and counsels, I have nothing to say except to regret that, in underestimating your breadth of character I exposed myself too contumely.
Watterson expresses regret for underestimating a colleague's character, emphasizing the importance of mutual respect in political relationships.
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It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
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