Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round read more

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
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'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

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.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but read more

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of
Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the
invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in
that invisible fabric.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.rn

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.rn

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.