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Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.

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The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

Action, Appetite, Humankind, Irrepressible, Power
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Historical, History, Nations, Peace, Tends, Unbalance

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Hazardous, Power, Prejudices, Strong, Thinking

Books are humanity in print.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Folly, Government, Men, Power
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