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“The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happinessto bring him down to the miserable level of good men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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