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If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.
Mark Twain • The Innocents Abroad
The very indirectness of the fable had the effect of making the sinner his own accuser. Whom the cap fitted was at liberty to don it.
Thomas Newbigging • Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern
Any individual in the General Market can give to the poor, pay for someone else’s schooling, donate money to foreign governments, or hire protection. It isn’t his choice he’s concerned about when he wants the government to do those things. It’s someone else’s choice that he’s trying to overrule.
Harry Browne • How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
If you plan for a decade, plant a tree. If you plan for posterity, educate a child.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Kathleen DuVal • A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change
Jonathan Haidt • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
we have a personal responsibility to lay the foundation for culinary and agricultural literacy,
James E. McWilliams • Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
My great grandmother wrote a poem in my aunt’s 6th grade yearbook. It always puzzled her, especially in context of the surrounding middle school antics. It went:
Honor and shame,
From no condition rise,
Do well your part,
There all the honor lies.
We asked GPT where it’s from, and it’s from a 1734 essay called “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope. It’s
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