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According to their measure, they have fulfilled Keats’ aspiration, they do live a life in which the emphasis lies on sensation rather than on thought: for the state which he then struggled to describe was that ideal state of pure
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“monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.”
― The City and the Stars
― The City and the Stars
“Yes, your emotions are screaming at you. But your emotions have no foresight. They can’t look ahead. They only look back to what enabled your ancestors to survive. If you allow them to overmaster you in the life-or-death choice you face, you’ll regret it in a future that your emotions cannot see.”
― The Girl from Krakow
― The Girl from Krakow
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal,”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
Jeff’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jeff’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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