Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude for he is a thinking creature.
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