Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. – Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. – W. H. Auden
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. – Michel de Montaigne, translated from French
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. – Swami Sivananda