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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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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already…
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus…
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,…
— John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple…
— John Adams
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