Quotes
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium."

Source : THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.”
“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.724, Simon and Schuster
“The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.”
“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.”
“Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.”
“No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.”
“In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.”
“After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.”

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