Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
Permalink to quote #8 All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in …
Permalink to quote #10 It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous im…
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