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Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on...
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the...
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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of...
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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone...
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Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not,...
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can...
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,...