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The Troop
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The dividing line between genius and insanity is very thin and quite permeable—which is why so many geniuses descend into madness.”
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
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“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when asked, 'And of those hammers, what is the use?' answered, 'To make hammers again'. Just as such a man would be perpetually putting off the question of the ultimate use of carpentry, so Mr. Wells and all the rest of us are by these phrases successfully putting off the question of the ultimate value of the human life.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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