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Quotation by Walter Lippmann
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), U.S. journalist. Public Opinion, ch. 17 (1922).
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