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"(...) For to observe would disturb good digestion of the experience, and instead of wisdom we should gain nothing but dyspepsia." 💯

“(…) Without vanity and self-seeking what are human virtues?…”

A never ending 13th grade for food? 💯

"(...) The arrogance of the North Germans was kept in check by their tendency to obey, that of the South Germans by their tendency—to make themselves comfortable.—..."

You know about bundles, Rockwell? 🫵👽

I loved this one: “(…) for whoever has not two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave, be he otherwise what he likes, statesman, merchant, official, scholar.”

I get busy following here!

I like this one: “(…) By getting a knowledge of ourselves, and by looking upon our nature as a changing sphere of opinions and moods, and thereby learning to despise ourselves a little, we recover once more our equilibrium with the rest of mankind…”

I like this one from Part I: “(…) One must be born for one’s physician, otherwise one comes to grief through him.”

"(...) physical and historical explanations produce the feeling of personal relief to at least the same extent, and that the interest in life and its problems is perhaps still more aroused thereby."

Enforcing his right to drive by keeping the highway less dense without me, neighbor is a genius!