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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient...more

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it ...more