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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
3 months 2 weeks ago
Let us not forget what befits...

Let us not forget what befits our present state in the pursuit of vain fancies. Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare. The rest depends on external forces, which are beyond our control.

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 2 weeks ago
Life is bristling…

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain (21 October 1769), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1882], vol. XIV, letter # 7692 (p. 478)
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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 2 weeks ago
When we desire to confine our...

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.

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Pseudodoxia Epidemica Book 5, Ch. 22, sect. 6
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Confucius
Confucius
4 months 2 days ago
The kingdom, its states, and its...

The kingdom, its states, and its families, may be perfectly ruled; dignities and emoluments may be declined; naked weapons may be trampled under the feet; but the course of the Mean cannot be attained to.

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Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
1 week 1 day ago
Beginning in the 1970s, however, the...

Beginning in the 1970s, however, the techniques and organizational form of industrial production shifted toward smaller and more mobile labor units and more flexible structures of production, a shift often labeled as a move from Fordist to post-Fordist production.

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Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
2 months 2 weeks ago
In the deep discovery of the...

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 months 1 week ago
The Present Age, according to my...

The Present Age, according to my view of it, stands in that Epoch which in my former lecture I named the THIRD, and which I characterized as the Epoch of Liberation-directly from the external ruling Authority, indirectly from the power of Reason as Instinct, and generally from Reason in any form; the Age of absolute indifference towards all truth, and of entire and unrestrained licentiousness:-the state of completed sinfulness.

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Jesus
Jesus
2 months 5 days ago
If thou wilt be perfect, go...

If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

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19:21 (KJV)
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 days ago
O poor mortals, how ye make...

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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Pt. I, Bk. V, ch. 5.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2 months 1 week ago
It is not as a child...

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

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As quoted in Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane (1950) by Harold Victor Martin.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the...

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
2 months 2 weeks ago
The most formidable of all the...

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

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Chapter XVIII.
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 3 weeks ago
Needless to say, I am not...

Needless to say, I am not opposed to woman suffrage on the conventional ground that she is not equal to it. I see neither physical, psychological, nor mental reasons why woman should not have the equal right to vote with man. But that can not possibly blind me to the absurd notion that woman will accomplish that wherein man has failed. If she would not make things worse, she certainly could not make them better. To assume, therefore, that she would succeed in purifying something which is not susceptible of purification, is to credit her with supernatural powers. Since woman's greatest misfortune has been that she was looked upon as either angel or devil, her true salvation lies in being placed on earth; namely, in being considered human, and therefore subject to all human follies and mistakes. Are we, then, to believe that two errors will make a right? Are we to assume that the poison already inherent in politics will be decreased, if women were to enter the political arena?

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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 days ago
Certainly the Art of Writing is...

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1 month 1 week ago
Youth is wholly experimental. Letter to...

Youth is wholly experimental.

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Letter to a Young Gentleman Scribner's Magazine (September 1888).
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
They who bow to the enemy...

They who bow to the enemy abroad will not be of power to subdue the conspirator at home.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
First, most producers are employees of...

First, most producers are employees of firms, not owners. Viewed from the vantage point of classical economic theory, they have no reason to maximize the profits of firms, except to the extent that they can be controlled by owners. Moreover, profit-making firms, nonprofit organizations, and bureaucratic organizations all have exactly the same problem of inducing their employees to work toward organizational goals. There is no reason, a priori, why it should be easier (or harder) to produce this motivation in organizations aimed at maximizing profits than in organizations with different goals. If it is true in an organizational economy that organizations motivated by profits will be more efficient than other organizations, additional postulates will have to be introduced to account for it.

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Simon (1991) "Organizations and Markets:" in: Journal of Economic Perspectives. 5 (2 Spring 1991): p. 28.
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St. Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo
3 months 4 weeks ago
Woman, compared to other creatures, is...

Woman, compared to other creatures, is the image of God, for she bears dominion over them. But compared unto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she bears not rule and lordship over man, but ought to obey him. The woman shall be subject to man as unto Christ. For woman, has not her example from the body and from the flesh, that so she shall be subject to man, as the flesh is unto the Spirit, because that the flesh in the weakness and mortality of this life lusts and strives against the Spirit, and therefore would not the Holy Ghost give example of subjection to the woman of any such thing.

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As quoted by John Knox The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (1558)
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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 2 weeks ago
I have received, sir, your new...

I have received, sir, your new book against the human species, and I thank you for it. You will please people by your manner of telling them the truth about themselves, but you will not alter them. The horrors of that human society-from which in our feebleness and ignorance we expect so many consolations-have never been painted in more striking colours: no one has ever been so witty as you are in trying to turn us into brutes: to read your book makes one long to go on all fours. Since, however, it is now some sixty years since I gave up the practice, I feel that it is unfortunately impossible for me to resume it: I leave this natural habit to those more fit for it than are you and I.

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Letter to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, August 30, 1755 referring to Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 1 week ago
Let us not underrate the value...

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

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"Natural History of Massachusetts". The Dial (July 1842) p. 39
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 2 weeks ago
Every tradition grows ever more venerable
Every tradition grows ever more venerable — the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that...

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.

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Notebook VII, The Chapter on Capital, p. 734.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 days ago
What the Universities have mainly done-what...

What the Universities have mainly done-what I have found the University did for me, was that it taught me to read in various languages and various sciences, so that I could go into the books that treated of these things, and try anything I wanted to make myself master of gradually, as I found it suit me. Whatever you may think of all that, the clearest and most imperative duty lies on every one of you to be assiduous in your reading; and learn to be good readers, which is, perhaps, a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading-to read all kinds of things that you have an interest in, and that you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 2 weeks ago
The objective of all human arrangements...
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 2 weeks ago
When by these steps he has...

When by these steps he has got resolution enough not to be deterr'd from what he ought to do, by the apprehension of danger; when fear does not, in sudden or hazardous occurrences, decompose his mind, set his body a-trembling, and make him unfit for action, or run away from it, he has then the courage of a rational creature: and such an hardiness we should endeavour by custom and use to bring children to, as proper occasions come in our way.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
3 months 1 week ago
In these downbeat times, we need...

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 2 weeks ago
There is no method of reasoning...

There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than in philosophical debates to endeavour to refute any hypothesis by a pretext of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

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Part 3, Section 2
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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
1 month 3 weeks ago
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive...

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

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Ch. 2
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
1 month 2 weeks ago
The best and safest method of...

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish these properties by experiment, and then to proceed more slowly to hypothesis for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

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Letter to Ignatius Pardies (1672) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Feb. 1671/2) as quoted by William L. Harper
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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 week ago
Physiologically, man in the normal use...

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. One of the merits of motivation research has been the revelation of man's sex relation to the motorcar.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
The process of being brought up,...

The process of being brought up, however well it is done, cannot fail to offend.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
3 months 1 week ago
Subject matters in general do not...

Subject matters in general do not exist. There are no subject matters; no branches of learning-or, rather, of inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
To be without some of the...

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
3 months 3 weeks ago
For we have in Latin only...

For we have in Latin only a few small streams and muddy puddles, while they have pure springs and rivers flowing in gold. I see that it is utter madness even to touch with the little finger that branch of theology that deals chiefly with the divine mysteries, unless one is also provided with the equipment of Greek.

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As quoted in Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017) by By Eric Metaxas, p. 85
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Epicurus
Epicurus
4 months 2 days ago
If you reject absolutely any single...

If you reject absolutely any single sensation without stopping to discriminate with respect to that which awaits confirmation between matter of opinion and that which is already present, whether in sensation or in feelings or in any immediate perception of the mind, you will throw into confusion even the rest of your sensations by your groundless belief and so you will be rejecting the standard of truth altogether. If in your ideas based upon opinion you hastily affirm as true all that awaits confirmation as well as that which does not, you will not escape error, as you will be maintaining complete ambiguity whenever it is a case of judging between right and wrong opinion.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months 5 days ago
The free will, the actual motor...

The free will, the actual motor of reason in society, necessarily creates wrong. The individual must clash with the social order that claims to represent his own will in its objective form. But the wrong and the 'avenging justice' that remedies it not only expresses a 'higher logical necessity,' but also prepare the transition to a higher social form of freedom, the transition from abstract right to morality. For, in committing a wrong, and in accepting punishment for his deed, the individual becomes conscious of the 'infinite subjectivity' of his freedom. He learns that he is free only as a private person.

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P. 198
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
He did not, and could not,...

He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life.

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About Platon Karataev in Bk. XII, ch. 13
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
It is important to remember that...

It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of goodness, kindness, and day-to-day decency that goes unnoticed and makes no headlines.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 1 week ago
To tax and to please, no...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
You can't get a cup of...

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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As quoted in Of This and Other Worlds (1982) by Walter Hooper, Preface, p. 9
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 week ago
A robot must protect its own...

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
2 months 1 week ago
It is impossible for any man,...

It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrolled power; how then must they be violated when his very elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either wisdom or virtue; when all the feelings of a man are stifled by flattery, and reflection shut out by pleasure! Surely it is madness to make the fate of thousands depend on the caprice of a weak fellow creature, whose very station sinks him NECESSARILY below the meanest of his subjects! But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another--for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
1 month 1 week ago
"What's this? Am I falling? My...

"What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired gunner artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that. Above him there was nothing but the sky - the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.

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Bk. III, Ch. 16
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David Wood
David Wood
3 weeks ago
To say that all philosophy is...

To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought.

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Chapter 3, Deconstruction and Criticism, p. 46
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 1 week ago
Friendship, I have said, is born...

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
3 months 1 week ago
I strongly suspect that most of...

I strongly suspect that most of the great knowers of Suchness paid very little attention to art.... (To a person whose transfigured and transfiguring mind can see the All in every this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a religious painting will be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.) Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
1 month 3 weeks ago
It is not my aim to...

It is not my aim to surprise or shock you - but the simplest way I can summarize is to say that there are now in the world machines that think, that learn and that create. Moreover, their ability to do these things is going to increase rapidly until - in a visible future - the range of problems they can handle will be coextensive with the range to which the human mind has been applied.

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Newell & Simon (1958), quoted in AI, by Daniel Crevier
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
3 days ago
With stupidity and sound digestion man...

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

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Bk. II, ch. 4.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
The law of the table is...

The law of the table is beauty, a respect to the common soul of the guests. Everything is unreasonable which is private to two or three, or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law; never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk shop" before company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and haters from insults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends.

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