"I am done with great things and big plans, great
institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving
human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through
the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary
oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments
of pride."
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