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They had lost their greatest attractions when, like a flash of lightning, their father’s splendid fortune had disappeared, and their time for choosing had departed with it.
“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror. What modern artists do is pseudo-intellectual masturbation. Creative art is intercourse, in which the artist renders emotional his audience.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
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