I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, …

Walt Whitman
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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years. ✨ Walt Whitman (2014). Specimen Days & Collect, p.417, Melville House
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