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when free speech was a perilous exercise, and when to declaim against vice and folly was to court personal risk, the fable was invented, or resorted to, by the moralist as a circuitous method of achieving the end he desired to reach—the
Thomas Newbigging • Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
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
Writer C. Raymond Beran on friendship: "What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been decla
... See morethe literary poem Martin Fierro
Brian Winter • Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: A Yanquis Missteps in Argentina
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manuel Quezon complained, too. Even though few adult Filipinos spoke English fluently by the time the Philippines became a commonwealth and Quezon became its president, the looming presence of English in the schools and government had blocked local languages from taking root. The result was, after hundreds of years of colonial rule (counting Spain)
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
David Cain • The elegant secret to self-discipline
