All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

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I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

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