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Identity Quotes
(To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) (epigraph)
Manipulation Quotes
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint. (lines 1-2)
Patriotism Quotes
And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. (lines 3-5)
Passivity Quotes
One against whom there was no official complaint (line 2)