A man who has not read Homer is like a man who has not seen the ocean. There is a great object of which he has no idea.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence it has not the ballot-box before it its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
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