The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
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If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
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