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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
We are the hero of our own story.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is... →
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been... →
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity... →
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the... →
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state... →
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