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"In a deeper sense the same spirit is behind both riot and respectability. It is the same social force that makes it possible for the respectable to boycott a man and for the riotous to lynch him. I do not object to it being called "the herd instinct", so long as we realise that it is a methaphor and not an explanation."
"Interviewers in the United States perpetually asked me what I thought of American women, and I confessed a distaste for such generalisations. The Americans, who are the most chivalrous people in the world, may perhaps understand me; but I can never help feeling that there is something polygamous about talking of women in the plural at all; something unworthy of any American except a Mormon."
/ Chesterton |
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