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1. "Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." ~ Lincoln Steffens

2. "Morality is only moral when it is voluntary." ~ Lincoln Steffens

3. "Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it." ~ Lincoln Steffens

4. "The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle." ~ Lincoln Steffens

5. "It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often." ~ Lincoln Steffens

6. "Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago." ~ Lincoln Steffens

7. "I have been over into the future, and it works." ~ Lincoln Steffens

8. "I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me." ~ Lincoln Steffens

9. "My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me." ~ Lincoln Steffens

10. "The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered." ~ Lincoln Steffens

11. "The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit." ~ Lincoln Steffens

12. "You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public." ~ Lincoln Steffens

13. "If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it." ~ Lincoln Steffens

14. "Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure." ~ Lincoln Steffens

15. "I am really puzzled to understand myself." ~ Lincoln Steffens

16. "I have been contending all my life, and always with God." ~ Lincoln Steffens

17. "I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church." ~ Lincoln Steffens

18. "If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality." ~ Lincoln Steffens

19. "My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion." ~ Lincoln Steffens

20. "My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being." ~ Lincoln Steffens

21. "My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline." ~ Lincoln Steffens

22. "Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government." ~ Lincoln Steffens

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An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom."
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