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Art and Culture
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.3.0 · 53 votes · 58 reads
Government and Politics
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of4.1 · 64 votes · 118 reads
Society
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.4.1 · 27 votes · 119 reads
Government and Politics
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.4.4 · 37 votes · 62 reads
Various
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.4.9 · 19 votes · 48 reads
Virtues
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.4.0 · 28 votes · 193 reads
Defects
Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.4.3 · 53 votes · 66 reads
Defects
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.4.9 · 27 votes · 173 reads
Government and Politics
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.4.1 · 14 votes · 183 reads
Defects
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.4.5 · 34 votes · 154 reads
Countries
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.5.0 · 28 votes · 41 reads
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