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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He...
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Human science is an uncertain guess.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof,...
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away...
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a...
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he...
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what...
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I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something...
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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide...
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that...