Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. (Walter Lippmann)

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Walter Lippmann

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