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“The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,Will it bake bread?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
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