The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
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Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y
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