Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree , for the better securing of his bread to each ... societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ...
... Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree , for the better securing of his bread to each ... societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ...
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... society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill ...
... society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other . Its progress is only apparent , like the workers of a treadmill ...
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... society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written , but which you shall presently make as envi- able and renowned as any . Accept your genius , and say what you think . In our estimates , let us take a lesson from ...
... society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written , but which you shall presently make as envi- able and renowned as any . Accept your genius , and say what you think . In our estimates , let us take a lesson from ...
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