Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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