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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, w
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the co
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
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