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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we... →
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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