“I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
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A quotation (not) from Tolstoy

> The wicked become even worse when tolerated.

**Leo Tolstoy** (1828–1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
(Spurious)

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“Recognizing a human face or figure is one of the more lauded abilities of the brain, trumped only perhaps by its ability to make wild assumptions about the recognized face.” — Peter Hunt Welch, The City Commute
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“Anger, when it is long in comming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.” — Francis Quarles, Enchiridion
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#Miscellanea from the #Archives at theotherpages.org
#Random things from the #collection
1 from #WUSTLArchive 3 by Steve Spanoudis
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“Socrates was right that writing would change memory. He was wrong when he insisted it would diminish us.” — Seth Godin, "The Builder’s Creed," Seth’s Blog (02026-07-07)
#SethGodin #Quotation #Quote #QOTD #Socrates #Change #Writing

A quotation from Ben Franklin

> Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

**Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard Improved_ (1749 ed.)

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“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple.” — Oscar Wilde, Letter to Robert Ross (01897-04-01)
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“…the physical world in which we live shapes the abstract world in which we think…" #quote #quotation

“There is no pleasure like that of receiving praise from the praiseworthy.” — Richard Steele, The Tatler, (01709-11-02)
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“RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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A quotation from Franklin

> If _Passion_ drives, let _Reason_ hold the Reins.

**Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard Improved_ (1749 ed.)

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“A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose.” — Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
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I turned to speak to God
about the world's despair
but to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.

God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
at least not over half.

Robert Frost, 1926

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“A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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“We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, Miss Manners believes, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.” — Judith Martin, "Happy Mother’s Day to a Single Acquaintance,," Miss Manners (02010-05-09)
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

> Those who do not feel pain, seldom think that it is felt.

**Samuel Johnson** (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-09-01), _The Rambler,_ No. 48

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