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“[T]here is sometimes more skill than courage in taking advantage for the present moment of an uncertain future, and taking advance credit for a perpetual abstinence that can be renounced at will.” (116)
— Jan 30, 2026 01:47AM
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Will Baker
is on page 186 of 728
“I maintain that only a geometrist and a dunce can speak without figures [i.e. ‘mataphors and figurative expressions’]” (196)
— Feb 08, 2026 12:01AM
Will Baker
is on page 181 of 728
“I do not fear that the senses and vulgar pleasure will corrupt you. They are hardly dangerous traps for a sensible heart, for that it takes more delicate ones; I fear that terrible influence that the universal and general example of vice must exert; I fear the clever sophisms in which it cloaks itself…” (184)
— Feb 06, 2026 05:43PM
Will Baker
is on page 164 of 728
“[W]hat seems to me worst about your present condition is that no one but yourself can rescue you from it.” (165)
— Feb 02, 2026 01:18AM
