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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? – Terri Guillemets

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. – Arthur Schopenhauer, “Studies in Pessimism,” Psychological Observations, 1851

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When youre in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. Thats the consolation of philosophy. – David Cronenberg

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