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“...we must go where the argument carries us, as a vessel runs before the wind.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.

I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.”
― A.E. Housman, More Poems

“You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.”
― William Cobbett

“Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. How dare you intervene? As well ask, How dare you not?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian