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Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an...
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life...
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People don?t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their...
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“Human reason is by nature architectonic.”
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only,...
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with...
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What is it about possessing things Why do we feel the need to own...
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Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who...
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but...