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""I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Jefferson attacks the spirit of faction." — 1 hour, 36 min ago
""I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Jefferson attacks the spirit of faction." — 1 hour, 36 min ago
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“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
