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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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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest…
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but…
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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