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The Men And Woman Who Make The Best Boon Companions Seem To Have Given Up Hope Of Doing Something Else...some Defect Of Talent Or Opportunity Has Cut Them Off From Their Pet Ambition And Has Thus Left Them With Leisure To Take An Interest In Their Lives Of Others. Your Ambition May Be, It Makes Him Keep His Thoughts At Home. But The Heartbroken People - If I May Use The Word In A Mild, Benevolent Sense - The People Whose Wills Are Subdued To Fate, Give Us Consolation, Recognition, And Welcome.

So Long As There Is Any Subject Which Men May Not Freely Discuss, They Are Timid Upon All Subjects.

A Political Organization Is A Transferable Commodity. You Could Not Find A Better Way Of Killing Virtue Than By Packing It Into One Of These Contraptions Which Some Gang Of Thieves Is Sure To Find Useful.

Benevolence Alone Will Not Make A Teacher, Nor Will Learning Alone Do It. The Gift Of Teaching Is A Peculiar Talent, And Implies A Need And A Craving In The Teacher Himself.

It Is Three And A Half Hours Long, Four Characters Wide And A Cesspool Deep.