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David is 25% done

"He had a great talent for one of the worst tricks of modern journalism, the trick of dismissing the important part of a question as if it could wait, and appearing to get to business on the unimportant part of it. Thus, he would say, 'Whatever we may think of the rights and wrongs of the vivisection of pauper children, we shall all agree that it should only be done, in any event, by fully qualified practitioners.'"

— Nov 22, 2023 09:00AM

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David is 90% done

"Victory over barbarians. Employment of barbarians. Alliance with barbarians. Conquest by barbarians. That is the great destiny of Empire."

— Dec 01, 2023 09:38AM

David is 74% done

"There are crowds who do not care to revolt; but there are no crowds who do not like someone else to do it for them; a fact which the safest oligarchs may be wise to learn."

— Nov 29, 2023 09:48AM

David is 72% done

"A madman has only one merit and last link with God. A madman is always logical."

— Nov 29, 2023 09:28AM

David is 62% done

"The finding and fighting of positive evil is the beginning of all fun—and even of all farce."

— Nov 25, 2023 04:33AM

David is 60% done

"The next best thing to really loving a fellow creature is really hating him: especially when he is a poorer man separated from you otherwise by mere social stiffness. The desire to murder him is at least an acknowledgment that he is alive."

— Nov 25, 2023 04:23AM

David is 55% done

"A vast proportion of the real Americans are among the most courteous, intelligent, self-respecting people in the world. Some attribute this to the fact that a vast proportion of the real Americans are Irishmen."

— Nov 23, 2023 08:48AM

David is 27% done

"There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason."

— Nov 22, 2023 09:30AM

David is 26% done

"The people who write to newspapers are, it may be supposed, a small, eccentric body, like most of those that sway a modern state."

— Nov 22, 2023 09:15AM

David is 18% done

"I haven't been happy, Hump, but I have had a jolly time."

— Nov 18, 2023 08:04AM

David is 15% done

"But Mr. Bullrose was petty. Every really practical tyrant must be petty."

— Nov 18, 2023 07:53AM