Earth Abides
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Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.
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Perhaps, like Odysseus himself, the two youngsters would encounter lotus-eaters and sirens and unspeakable Laestrygonians.
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Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.
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although Ish had wondered whether mother-lineage might not prevail, as with many primitive people. But the old tradition of the Americans was too strong.