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To such disreputable subterfuges party spirit can condescend, to gratify malignity, or to obscure merit from the knowledge of the world, to the power of which it is itself compelled to yield.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “To such disreputable subterfuges party spirit can condescend, to gratify malignity, or to obscure merit from the…”
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Quincy critiques the lengths to which party spirit can go to undermine merit and promote malignity.
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