There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwis
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Those who live near the temple make fun of the gods.
Byron's revealing line, "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," suggests that the comic sense is parasitic
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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, y
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That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to
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'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe
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All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe control it. The philosopher, by contr
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The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of oursel
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I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to
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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
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