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QUOTATION:Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
ATTRIBUTION:Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), U.S. journalist. A Preface to Morals, ch. 15 (1929).
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