Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y.Henry Mencken
An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be.
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By an inferior man I mean one who knows nothing that is not known to every adult, who can do nothing that could not be learned by anyone in a few weeks, and who meanly admires mean things
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting) I can recall none in all the literature of the world.
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Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit - who, in the course of nature, would soon die out and so cease to encumber the earth - into parasites - who live on indefinitely, a nuisance and a burden to their b
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The formula of the argument is simple and familiar to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
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