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free will is awhore fr them
wasnt mine moar
“He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.” – Tremendous Trifles, 1909 bravity brevity yada
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908 ty ;1111111111111111111111111111P
newtons cookies
don't matter
if the milk smells funny
do not drink
prol easier to figure out the laundry
follow the moolah
pure accidents
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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” – ILN, 4/19/30
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.” – A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.” – A Utopia of Usurers, CW, V, p396
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test." ~ Samuel Johnson
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
Tolstoy (1903)
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
Twelve Types (1903) "Sir Walter Scott"
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Language is the dress of thought.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.