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Even though inferior to another, it has the great advantage of being known to the people that use it.
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Sumner argues that familiarity with a flawed system is preferable to an unknown one, highlighting human attachment to the familiar.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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