They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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