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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
― The African Queen
― The African Queen
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
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Chad’s 2025 Year in Books
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