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| | Herman Melville | | And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. |  | | Read more... | |
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| | Herman Melville | | And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened. Discuss | | | Read more... | |
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| | Harriet Beecher Stowe | | Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. | | | Read more... | |
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| | Harriet Beecher Stowe | | Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. Discuss | | | Read more... | |
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| | Homer | | The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Discuss | | | Read more... | |
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| | Edith Wharton | | He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. | | | Read more... | |
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| | Edith Wharton | | He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. Discuss | | | Read more... | |
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| | Daniel Defoe | | The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. | | | Read more... | |
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. 
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. 