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Alexander Woollcott Quotes: I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
         

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.


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