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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third read more
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
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He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says--what says he?--Caw.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty read more
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably read more
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every
serious crisis is invariably wrong.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
[Lat., Securus judicat orbis terrarum.]
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our read more
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.