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…liked to act the fool and assume all sorts of surprising roles; he would do so even when he had nothing to gain, indeed, even when it could be positively to his disadvantage…This is a quirk found in many people, even very clever ones…" — Mar 21, 2026 08:47PM
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Divine justice pales before the enormity of earthly injustice and loss." — Mar 21, 2026 06:47PM
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three
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“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
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As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
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“An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.”
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“It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
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Rex’s 2025 Year in Books
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