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Excerpt from Constrained Attitudes
Sound and able men, no doubt, and men whom the nation delights to honour, but what does happen to you as you grasp the pen or mount the platform? For many years have I pon dered this strange public diminution of the private man, bursting out on the subject now and then in print, and to this day I cannot read a newspaper, attend an alumni dinner, in cline my mind to thoughts presidential or lead ing citizens' ideals, without a sense of won der. And though sheer bald wonder may seem to some to be of small advantage, I do assure all who, like me, are sometimes a little.
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