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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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There nearly always is a method in madness.

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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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Adventure is the champagne of life.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

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