The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
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Life baffles and seems almost to mock. It refuses long to remain consistently one thing or another and it seldom puts us into one mood without...
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Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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