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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
— Lincoln Steffens
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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
— Lincoln Steffens
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The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
— Lincoln Steffens
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
— Lincoln Steffens
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I am really puzzled to understand myself.
— Lincoln Steffens
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
— Lincoln Steffens
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