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…the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the...
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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs...
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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who...
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Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is...
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity...
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a...
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of...