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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Thomas Mann

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Human Reason Social
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
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Admire Animal Companion
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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Funny Music Passion Serious Vulgar
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
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Compromises Goodness Moral Opportunity Politics
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
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Demand Live Passion Problem Public Youth
I don’t think anyone is thinking long-term now.
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Goal Present Thinking
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
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Clever Health Ideas Man Perfection Refine Unusual
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one’s own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
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Goodness Hesitate Misfortune Opinion Reality Yourself
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
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Change Magic Thinking Vehicle Word
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.
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Belong Bright Charm Children Deep Love Myself Ordinary Secret
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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Difficult People Writing
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
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Kind Love Reason Thinking
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Laughter Soul Sunshine
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.
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Deprive Himself Man Safety Smoke Touch Understand
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
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Best Lust Mathematics Occupation Remedy Study
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Better Harm Lying Truth

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