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| Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Each and All. ~ |
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| Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. True work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 5, 1877, to his cousin, Catherine Gansevoort Lansing. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). Melville was working in the customs service. ~ |
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| Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. |
| ~ -- Pooh foncuses left and right _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 116 ~ |
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| A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (c. 1889), ch. 21, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). ~ |
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| There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 55, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 29, 1910.—Roosevelt, The New Nationalism, p. 52 (1910). This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol. ~ |
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| It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, July 8, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Taft, Military Aide, 2: 439, Doubleday, Page & Company (1930). Taft’s life goal was to serve on the Supreme Court. He made this comment following the death of Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller and visit to moribund Justice William H. Moody. ~ |
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