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Mirabeau was right, when he protested against the use of this word as simple stupidity.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Mirabeau was right, when he protested against the use of this word as simple stupidity.”
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Sumner quotes Mirabeau to emphasize the folly of labeling things as impossible.
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