In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Quintilian87 quotes“In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.”
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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Kin HubbardKin Hubbard I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?
Jay-ZJay-Z His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William GoldingWilliam Golding Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley Yes, it’s true – I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body – almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits.
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