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Confucius1 quote
A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to his elders abroad. — Confucius · 221 BCImmanuel Kant1 quote
There is... Only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant · 1785Kurt Vonnegut1 quote
Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- "God damn it, you've got to be kind." — Kurt Vonnegut · 1965Thomas Hardy1 quote
Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise. — Thomas Hardy · 1872