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Alexander Pope:Slave to no sect, who takes no

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
by Alexander Pope


Ralph Waldo Emerson:To believe your own thought,

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Vita Sackville-West:Travel is the most private

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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
by Vita Sackville-West


Gaius Sallustius Crispus:Instead of this we have

gaius sallustius crispus | distinction; | indigence | opulence; | idleness; | unworthy | ambition | avarice; | avarice | between

Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition.
by Gaius Sallustius Crispus


Syliva Plath:This seemed a dreary and wasted

syliva plath | university | professor | willard's | marriage | straight | marriage | morning | herself | because

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.
by Syliva Plath


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