The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested …

Henry David Thoreau
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, p.8, Hayes Barton Press
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