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Perhaps he might have been suspected of meannesss if it had not been for the fact that with wonderful disinterestedness and all a comrade's readiness, his purse would be opened for some harebrained boy who had ruined himself at cards or by some other folly.
The Country Doctor Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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It must, therefore, be some compensation to the Americans for the absence of pure monarchy, that when they look upwards their eyes are not always met by vice, and meannesss, and often idiocy.”
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Seward, William H 1849
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It must, therefore, be some compensation to the Americans for the absence of pure monarchy, that when they look upwards their eyes are not always met by vice, and meannesss, and often idiocy. "
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States William Henry Seward 1836
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