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“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”
Mansfield Park • Jane Austen“A man who had two sons ... went to the first and said, "Son, go out and work in my vineyard today." But he answered and said, "I will not," but afterward he repented of it and he went. And the father went to the second and said the same. But he answered, "I will, sir," and he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?”
Works of Love • Soren Kierkegaard“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.”
Mansfield Park • Jane Austen“Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset