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“Great and necessary as are law and authority, if human society is to develop its higher possibilities, law and authority are but rounds of the ladder by means of which mankind climbs to higher levels.”
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“You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.”
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“There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.”
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“Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.”
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“We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed — these are corruptions.”
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“ 'Daughter' is not a lifelong assignment.”
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“A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.”
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“... continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there.”