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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
         

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.


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