A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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