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Irving Babbitt - True democracy consists not in...
True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard. (Irving Babbitt)

True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.

Irving Babbitt

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