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The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion · 1748
★ 7.0
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue · 1927
United States v. Schwimmer · 1929
Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Considerations by the Way · 1860
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
Nature · 1836
★ 5.1
★ 5.0
Essays: Second Series (Emerson) · 1844
Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910
★ 4.3
Towne v. Eisner · 1918
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779 · 1780
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 1790
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 1790
Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841
★ 3.7
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
The American Scholar · 1837
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I woke-and found that life was duty.
Beauty and Duty · 1840
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
The Vision of Sir Launful · 1848
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910