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it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.

Public services are never better performed, than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.

It was a simpler explanation, and, implausible as it might appear, it was comfortably understandable.

gravely. A larger allocation of fighters was impossible.

Patriotism is a hard disease to eradicate, and ennui stamps us all.

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

Judgment, than which nothing is more strict Hell, than which nothing is more terrible Paradise, than which nothing is more delightful

Why love the god all gods detest?

Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.

I salute you as the Gates of Death

Lean Freedom is Better than Fat Slavery Aesop

The country of the blind has ordered mirrors Its one-eyed king's vision is now prime for time

Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.

The least among you [the Sages] has the capacity to revive the dead (Avodah Zarah 10b)

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

Well, the truth is, vacations are pointless anyway, because you always have to come back, so you might as well save time, skip the middle step, and stay put in the first place.

Mike Mansfield had a saying: "It only takes one senator to make a scene. But it takes more than one to make a difference." Okay, he never said that. I made it up.

Yes, Roger Ailes, who actually was very funny and who, as far as I know, did not sexually harass anyone during the two hours he was with us. Between

You can change "words" in a marketing program, but heaven help you if you try to change a

As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval. That

we've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.