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“If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.”
― Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders