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Don't quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones.
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Don't quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions:
1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope?
No one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game, because the only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed.
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
I watched a porno once, it was really funny.
Light a candle for the sinners. Set the world on fire.
Whatever America has to show in heroic living to-day, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making to-day to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.