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“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.”

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world

“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”

Men Country Miracle Noble Instance Despise Artificial Survived Shrinks Aristocracy Dwarfs Dwarves

Book:Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

“What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.”

Wells Country Hate I Hate Administration Atmosphere Allowing Despise Festivals Inviting Horrific

Author:Jessica Lange