The only respect in which man is superior to animals is that he can die when he wants to, not just when he has to. Maybe it's the one freedom you can always count on — the freedom to throw your life away. The Post Office Girl
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. The Innocents Abroad
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue." The Analects of Confucius
Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. On Duties
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