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In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the…

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One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far…

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To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can…

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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

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It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and…

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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage…

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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

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