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What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.

Darwin thought that the perfect equality among the Fuegians was fatal to any hope of their becoming civilized;43 or, as the Fuegians might have put it, civilization would have been fatal to their equality.

other things." He filled her cup. "Jasmine," he said. "Tastes

But once more, here I am - confronted with the counter-intuitive notion that intelligence is no protection against strange beliefs.

Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.

A Bible-quoting group of killers. I don't like it, Barker rumbled, his chin buried in his coat. Murder and faith make nasty bedfellows.

He who will not bend to Love must be subdu'd by Fear.

As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius

in the newspapers. It was Churchill who coined the phrase 'in war the truth is so important that it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies'.

It was born of self-confidence, though, this attitude – of success, not chippiness, that debilitating English disease. He

What happened to your lip, by the way?' 'I was punched in the face by a French philosopher.

When he quoted Voltaire's dictum that 'the history of the human mind is the history of stupidity', he meant it from the bottom of his heart.

William Carlos Williams

It lives as pictures only can : by their power TO ESCAPE ILLUSION and stand between man and nature as saints once stood between man and the sky...

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Women are never virgins. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.

Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.

The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight not of that single monotony of desolation leaning with that terrific quality a little from right to left, as though we had reached the place where the motion of the wasted world accelerates just before the final precipice.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...