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Edwin A. Abbott has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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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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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
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