“Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.”
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
