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“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”
― History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1
― History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
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“To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.”
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“In the beginning was simplicity.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
“The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.”
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
― The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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