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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them.

Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 3, pt. 8, Miscellaneous Pieces: Swiss Views (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924-27).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.

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