Congratulations! I love Mabel and this book so much. 🎉

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"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government…

...The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction... turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty…"

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Love Barbara. She's terrific! I'm sure Heather is too. ;)

"Sometimes art is bad because it’s inept; that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about highly polished products made by professionals that leave your senses feeling dulled."

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