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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
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An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes...
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A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only...
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
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Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate,...
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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal...