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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
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“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”
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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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