Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or...

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or...

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the...

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the...

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the...

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of...

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

I will beat thee into handsomeness

I will beat thee into handsomeness

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics...

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics...

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Literature is news that stays news.

Literature is news that stays news.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.