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Of the fact that it takes all sorts to make a world I have been aware ever since I could
read. But proverbs are always commonplaces until you have personally experienced the
truth of them. To realize that is takes all sorts to make a world one must have seen a
certain number of the sorts with one’s own eyes. Having seen them and having in this
way acquired an intimate realization of the truth of the proverb, one finds it hard to go
on believing rational and right. This conviction of man’s diversity must find its moral
expression in the practice of the completest possible tolerance.