Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of…

Walter Lippmann
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics

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