“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
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