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I think it was a generous thought, and one that flowed from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Edward Blount. 10 Feb. 1715-1716.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 153-154.

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope. 12 Oct. 1765.

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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

John Quincy Adams

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Adams, John Quincy. Letter to James Lloyd. 1 Oct. 1822.

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 4 Oct. 1746.

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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. "To Oscar Pollack, January 27, 1904." Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

John Steinbeck

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Also known as Clarke's Third Law.

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Clarke's Third Law on UFOs." Science Magazine, 19 Jan. 1968.

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 1 July 1748.

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It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?

C.S. Lewis

On homemaking.

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Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

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Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to Ellen Terry. 28 Aug. 1896.

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I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"

William James

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James, William. Letter to Alice Gibbons James. 1878.

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The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

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On the fall of the Bastille.

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Fox, Charles James. Letter to Richard Fitzpatrick. 30 July 1789.

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What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

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The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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Browne, Charles Farrar. "Introduction to the Club." London Punch Letters. c. 1866, no. 5.

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Is there not a casual connection between the development of these huge, indomitable trusts and the horrible crimes now under investigation?... Is it not irony to speak of the equality of opportunity in a country cursed with their bigness?