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We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Progress, Reform
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.