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- Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best…
- Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that…
- We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
- We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after…
- There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law…
- We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out…
- The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words…
- Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and…
- The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
- Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow…
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