"The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived."

-- Petronius

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“Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.”
“It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.”
“A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.”
“I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.”
“EWW. I'm at lunch, the woman at the table next to me is breast feeding her baby with no coverup.”
“Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.”
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”

Source : "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1859.
“I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.”

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