A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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