There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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