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Title: good statement
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00107
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| ☟ good statement |
There is something very bitter in the tacit adoption in the our great democratic cities of America, of these [codes?] imported forms & laws of manners & [the?] imported from the royal capitals of Europe, involving—the