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It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.