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This friendship has had no ideal to follow other than itself; no comparison but with itself.
Michel de Montaigne • On Friendship (Penguin Great Ideas)
WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.
Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol
not just “goods now for goods in the future,” but goods now for more goods in the future.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
for, between ourselves, I flatter myself he is an original, and I am rather proud of him.'
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
Thirdly, and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labour is facilitated and abridged by the application of proper machinery.
Adam Smith • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
But I do say, to start with, “What can we do for posterity, except deal fairly with our contemporaries?” Unless a man love his wife whom he has seen, how shall he love his child whom he has not seen?