"Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Virtue never has been as respectable as money. Innocents Abroad
Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. Fragment
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