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“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (18621941)
“A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of mans power in the world.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535475 B.C.)
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