Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knew the purpose of existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds...
Criticism, if well-intentioned, although in fact it be mistaken, has always a value; but the shrewdest and most acute criticism if done in the spirit of muckraking is merely slander...