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“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
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“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
-Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, II”
― The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology from Addison to De Quincey
-Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, II”
― The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology from Addison to De Quincey
“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens, some description must be uppermost.”
― The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
― The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
“-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”
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There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”
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“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all the appearance imaginable of justice and good order; and very many persons, without any sort of partial purposes, have been led to adopt such schemes and to pursue them with great earnestness and warmth.”
― The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
― The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
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