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  • The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movementbut it passes away from them.They are not the leaders of a revolution. Theyare its victims.

    - Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra Connor
    Under Western Eyes, pt.2, ch.3.

  • Humane, but not human.

    - e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
    On Ezra Pound. Recalled on Cummings's death, 3 Sep1962.

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