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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously sub

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. – G.B. Shaw, “Maxims for Revolutionists,” 1898

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Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself. – John W. Raper

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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. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920

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The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. – Donald Barthelme

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