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“It is much easier to burn men…

…than to burn their opinions.” –Charles Dickens, A Child’s History of England

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Can you name a braggart who needs this advice from a genius?

But will never read it, nor heed it, because he neither reads nor heeds. It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before … Continue reading

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Love, blissful love

The greater the accumulation of deceit and trouble in the world, the brighter and the purer shone the star of Dora high above the world. I don’t think I had any definite idea where Dora came from, or in what … Continue reading

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