A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laugther.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
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Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it.
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority By the minority, surely.
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