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"Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves." — Jun 18, 2026 09:18PM
"Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves." — Jun 18, 2026 09:18PM
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(page 43 of 256)
"... seemingly great and wise men, who with a new-fashioned modesty employ some paltry orator or scribbling poet, whom they bribe to flatter them with some high-flown character, that shall consist of mere lies and shams ... while the impudent parasite magnifies the poor wretch to the skies, and proposes him as a complete pattern of all virtues, from each of which he is yet as far distant as heaven itself from hell:" — Jun 17, 2026 12:45PM
"... seemingly great and wise men, who with a new-fashioned modesty employ some paltry orator or scribbling poet, whom they bribe to flatter them with some high-flown character, that shall consist of mere lies and shams ... while the impudent parasite magnifies the poor wretch to the skies, and proposes him as a complete pattern of all virtues, from each of which he is yet as far distant as heaven itself from hell:" — Jun 17, 2026 12:45PM
Mark André said:
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Only after you have read Dubliners & Portrait & Ulysses a half a dozen times each, and your mind still demands more Joyce, are you ready to read Finnegans Wake.
"
progress:
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"... an impressive private reputation for whispered sins?" — Jun 19, 2026 07:28AM
"... an impressive private reputation for whispered sins?" — Jun 19, 2026 07:28AM
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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