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He is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
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

conchology,
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
"He IS a disgraceful object,
Willa Sibert Cather • O Pioneers!
Years later, he made millions by using the same psychology in business. For example, he wanted to sell steel rails to the Pennsylvania Railroad. J. Edgar Thomson was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad then. So Andrew Carnegie built a huge steel mill in Pittsburgh and called it the ‘Edgar Thomson Steel Works.’
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as
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