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 The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
 With magic wand. So potent is the spell,
  That read more 
 The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
 With magic wand. So potent is the spell,
  That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
   Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.
    There we grow early gray, but never wise. 
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
I believe the best social program is a job.
I believe the best social program is a job.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
 For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy 
can be nothing less than the abolition read more 
 For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy 
can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. 
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, read more
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it read more
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.