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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is...
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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but...
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the...
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I can’t keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example,...
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest...
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People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and...
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When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that...