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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...

Wave after wave of cats poured down from the hill as if a vent into a world of cats had been opened

There is, I reflected tritely, an infinite deal of pathos in the state of an eminent person who has come down in the world.

The square-paned windows were coated with a thick, dewlike moisture;

There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude.

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature

there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all the original horror.

so that I came to regard it as at least a bearable place to hibernate till one might really live again.

I recognized the ugly and unwieldy form of the cook, whose very absurdness had now become unutterably tragic. The

His age was unknown, since among his kind neither family records nor permanent family ties exist;

veritable gateway to realms of unfathomed horror and inconceivable abnormality.

I certainly can't see any sensible position to assume aside from that of complete scepticism tempered by a leaning toward that which existing evidence makes most probable.

yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

But what weight had the dreams of mystics against the harsh wisdom of the world?

and as I watched I felt that it was in turn watching me greedily with eyes more imaginable than visible.

my cries were lost in the hell-born babel of the howling wind-wraiths.

fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. Horror

and in this fascination, there was curiously disturbing element hardly to be classified or accounted for

It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.

At Grinnell, named for Josiah Grinnell, Iowa's leading abolitionist, the reception couldn't have been more supportive.

John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament generally.