“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
