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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
The wide world is all before us--
But a world without a friend.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty read more
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than read more
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
