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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy ... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, particolored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Socrates, in The Republic, bk. 8, sct. 558.
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