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Regarding Newel Standley's letter on being negative (Readers' Forum, Sept. 21): What is negative for one is positive for another. To many of us, preserving our precious liberties is a positive. Mark Twain said it best: "Rome's liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sell -- exactly our own history over again."
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