The Minds Of Some Of Our Statesmen, Like The Pupil Of The Human Eye, Contract Themselves The More, The Stronger Light There Is Shed Upon Them.

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The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye,
contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon
them.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance

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