"Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy."
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"I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development."
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"The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate."
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"It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched."
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"The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf."
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"A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low."
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