Sublime

Schopenhauer, who translated the book, observes that there is nothing like it in German, and there is certainly none approaching it in English, and if France or Italy can produce its superior, it is strange that its fame has remained so confined to its native country.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

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geniality,

E&E factor: energy and excellence.

Nothing’s work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

for she “was now in a civilized country, where . . . people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.