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History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.
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The Devil waited until he was sure the two policemen were going to keep their side of the bargain. A man called Nietzsche once observed that there is no such thing as moral phenomena, only a moral *interpretation* of them. The Devil had a certain amount of time for Nietzsche. despite the mustache. He'd understood. We look at a squirrel and say it is jumping; but we might as well think about a jump in its essence, and claim that the *jump* is *squirreling*. We do bad things, in other words, but t
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― Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
― Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
