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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ↗

— George Santayana

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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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