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But we know our enemies by how foolishly they trample upon what we know as affection. How quickly they find another language for what they cannot translate as love.
Hanif Abdurraqib • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Ambrose, while he was eminent as a statesman, was, in other respects, merely typical of his age. He wrote, like other ecclesiastical authors, a treatise in praise of virginity, and another deprecating the remarriage of widows. When he had decided on the site for his new cathedral, two skeletons (revealed in a vision, it was said) were conveniently
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Deem me still a murderer, and drag me to untimely death. I make not an effort to dispel your illusion: I utter not a word to cure you of your sanguinary folly:
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Perhaps you allude to one by the name of Carwin. I will anticipate your curiosity by saying, that since these disasters, no one has seen or heard of him. His agency is, therefore, a mystery still unsolved."
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"This is no savage country, my friend. But no men? Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."