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• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to…
• Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
• Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
• Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -…
• People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will…
• All progress is experimental.
• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own…
• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce…
• The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
• Too much agreement kills the chat.
• Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you…
• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

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