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"Faust is just the avoidant introvert that wants to stay home and Mephistopheles is the master of side-quests that drags him along for shenanigans." — Mar 22, 2026 08:35AM
"Faust is just the avoidant introvert that wants to stay home and Mephistopheles is the master of side-quests that drags him along for shenanigans." — Mar 22, 2026 08:35AM
“Unharmed with naked feet she trod
Upon the hot and burning stars”
― Longfellow's Complete Poems: Illustrated
Upon the hot and burning stars”
― Longfellow's Complete Poems: Illustrated
“That is the danger of having principles. In politics, principle is like a sword aimed at the heart. Far better, one might be forgiven for thinking, for a lord to have no principles than to risk that he might fall on that sword. The principled man simply has more to lose. It is what makes them such fabulous villains.”
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“Be virtuous' says the copy-book, 'and you will be happy.' Surely if a reputed virtue fails often in this respect it is only an insidious form of vice, and if a reputed vice brings no very serious mischief on a man's later years it is not so bad a vice as it is said to be.”
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“Some alien substance more and more is cleaving
To all the mind conceives of grand and fair;
When this world's Good is won by our achieving,
The Better, then, is named a cheat and snare”
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To all the mind conceives of grand and fair;
When this world's Good is won by our achieving,
The Better, then, is named a cheat and snare”
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“My inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
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