It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its ty…

Henry Miller
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ✨ Henry Miller (1941). The Wisdom of the Heart, p.49, New Directions Publishing
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