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There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan. - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Supplement.” “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 461, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). Referring to political debate.

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