A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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