"Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate."

-- Louis Menand

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“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.”

Source : Song: Must I Paint You a Picture?
“Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.”
“The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey thoughts about moons and running far and fast, if she'd had a soul. Instead it caused her to sigh in exasperation and sit up.”
“The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.”
“When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.”

Source : "Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster Gets a Devil of a Storyline". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.
“For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy”
“If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you”
“Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.”

Source : Andrew Bernstein (2005). “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire”, University Press of Amer

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