Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams
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  1. Philosophy .. .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

  2. The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of...

  3. The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

  4. The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

  5. Good men do the most harm.

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