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"[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it."
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By Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
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By Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
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By John Milton
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"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
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By Al Capp
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"... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is"
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By John Milton
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"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
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By John Milton
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"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have l"
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By Aristotle
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