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Never pet a burning dog.

— Philip Wylie

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  1. Our Protestant churches, and, even more especially, the Catholic Church, devote an incredible portion of their political energy-perhaps mos…
  2. Never eat yellow snow.
  3. American liberty has been tentatively saved for the last few decades not by the self-discipline of its citizens but by their instincts, whi…
  4. There is no liberty for a man under any discipline except that which is self-imposed. The imposition of disciplines by the state is called …
  5. Love of liberty is laudable and logically the chief political end of man, so long as it is hitched to responsibleness. Eighteenth century m…
  6. Both constructs of the aphorism hold true. But, because it is an American convention to adore common people without restriction, I elect he…
  7. 'God,' the saying might also read, 'must hate the common people because he made them so common.'
  8. 'Why worry about race? In a century, we'll all be tea-colored!' Tallahssee, Florida Unitarian Church 1958 (Church was burned a week later.)

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  • caution
  • danger
  • metaphor
  • risk
  • safety

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