No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby so helpless and so ridiculous.
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.
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The gates of thought, how slow and late they discover themselves Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
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