Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. - Edward Dahlberg
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
- Edward Dahlberg
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. - Edward Dahlberg
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple… - Edward Dahlberg
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple…
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. - Edward Dahlberg
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
It takes a long time to understand nothing. - Edward Dahlberg
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. - Edward Dahlberg
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. - Edward Dahlberg
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. - Edward Dahlberg
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. - Edward Dahlberg
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
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