Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. The Post Office Girl
The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. Essays
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Human, All Too Human
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Guns, Germs And Steel
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