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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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But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
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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…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it,…
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be…
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