“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
