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to raise

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Norman Mailer

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes a village to raise a child. African Proverb

It takes a village to raise a child. Nigerian Proverb

It takes a whole village to raise a child. Yoruba Proverb

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