Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. Ulysses
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. Moby Dick
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly. The Picture of Dorian Gray
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and ... consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. Essays and Letters
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