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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau
Psychology, Levels, Come Up
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, Courier Corporation
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.