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Nobody was inclined to dispute his leadership, but everybody was prone to assert his own.
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Watterson notes the dynamics of leadership and individual assertion within a group discussion.
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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!
The literary and artistic instinct which attained its fruition in him had percolated through the veins of a long line of silent singers, of poets and painters, unborn to the world of expression till he arrived upon the scene.
In one way and another they lived by their wits, the one all dignity, the other all cheek.
Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
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