There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Discuss
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Booker T. Washington
Assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong. Discuss
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Frederick Douglass
To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. Discuss
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James Madison
But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? Discuss
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Upton Sinclair
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. Discuss
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Richard le Gallienne
They are the good Samaritans that find us robbed of all our dreams by the roadside of life, bleeding and weeping and desolate; and such is their skill and wealth and goodness of heart, that they not only heal up our wounds, but restore to us the lost property of our dreams. Discuss
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Wilkie Collins
One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are. Discuss
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Victor Hugo
The man who is not loved hovers like a vulture over the sweetheart of others. Discuss
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve? Discuss
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Edgar Allan Poe
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. Discuss
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