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Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and…
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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers,…
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Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
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If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our…
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Upward, not Northward
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...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be…
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I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage…
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he…
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to…
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented…
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
— Thomas Carlyle
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