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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Source: Erewhon, Ch. 20
-- Samuel Butler (b), (Dec 4 1835-1902), English novelist, satirist, scholar; He was known for his ironic, witty semi-autobiographical novel, Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon, 1872.

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