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“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
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“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
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“...There are as many sexes as there are individuals...the seeming neat correspondence between male and female organs is not the end, but the beginning, of sexuality.”
― Screening The Sexes
― Screening The Sexes
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
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