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The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us.

— Clarence Day

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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

After All (1936)

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970)

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than pausing at times to reflect on these facts.

When eras die, their legacies
Are left to strange police.
Professors in New England guard
The glory that was Greece.

Thoughts without words (1928)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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