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==="Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was person from much the same stratum of herself--that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of face, he had no such facilities--he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world." --F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (pg. 149) ===

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--Kanye West, All Falls Down
"He longed to speak out, from his own pulpit, at the full height of his voice, and tell the people what he was. "I, whom you behold in thee black garments of the preisthood,--I, who ascend the sacred desk, and turn my pale face heavenward, taking upon myself to hold communion, in your behalf, with the Most High Omniscience,-I whose daily life you discern the sanctity of Enoch,--I, whose footsteps, as you suppose, leave a gleam along my earthly track, whereby the pilgrims that shall come after me may be guided to the regions of the blest,--I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children,--I, who have breathed the parting prayer over your drying friends, to whom the men sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted,--I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!" --Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter (pg.125)

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"Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!" --Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost media type="youtube" key="8gFCW3PHBws" height="315" width="420" align="center"

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