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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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