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Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.


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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.



If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.



Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.



The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.



Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.



Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.



Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming



He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.



Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!



Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.





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It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.



Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.

Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.



What is working stain, does not soil.

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I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.



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I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.



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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.



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