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![The Elements of Style [Illustrated] by William Strunk Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1496794202l/453553._SX50_.jpg "The Elements of Style [Illustrated] by William Strunk Jr.")
Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God.
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
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