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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• self-respect
• patriotism
• sympathy
• animate
• spirit
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