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Margaret Oliphant · Society

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Margaret Oliphant

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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Irving Babbitt

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

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Daniel Radcliffe

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

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Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

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