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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.
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― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936]
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