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Adam Gopnik has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it…
— James Buchan
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't…
— Lord Byron
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Love is its own reward....
— Thomas Merton
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
— Guy Finley
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
— John Henry Newman
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
— John Vanbrugh
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A generous action is its own reward.
— William Thomas Walsh
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Order is its own reward.
— Janet Morris
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Liberty is its own reward.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at…
— Kenneth Arrow
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Virtue is its own reward.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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