"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. Following the Equator
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. On Duties
...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens. Book III
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately. The Winter of Our Discontent
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