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- Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to…
- Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
- The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly…
- Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of…
- Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
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