“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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