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“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.”
 
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Matthew Arnold
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   Dec 24, 1822
 
Date of Death:   Apr 15,  1888
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
 
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