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An elegant sufficiency,...

An elegant sufficiency,...

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful...

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We need old...

We need old...

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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A lady, that...

A lady, that...

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases,...

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There are two...

There are two...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

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The cure for...

The cure for...

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Source: Notes on Democracy,...

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It is impossible...

It is impossible...

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it...

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Character in decay...

Character in decay...

Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.

Source: In...

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A man's women...

A man's women...

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as...

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Whether we regard...

Whether we regard...

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy,...

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Listening to someone...

Listening to someone...

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you...

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He who despises...

He who despises...

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: Death Kit,...

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Of all the...

Of all the...

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Source: In

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By the time...

By the time...

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying...

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Experiments with laboratory...

Experiments with laboratory...

Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all...

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An optimist is...

An optimist is...

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Source: In...

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There follows a...

There follows a...

There follows a little obscenity here, a dask of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern...

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A judgment about...

A judgment about...

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the...

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Crime is a...

Crime is a...

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,...

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Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of...

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Women manage, quite...

Women manage, quite...

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being...

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