The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. -Walt Whitman

 

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.


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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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