“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
