A fellow learns a lot of this fancy stuff that Ralph calls philosophy when he spends a few winters shut up in a cabin with just one other guy, trapping.
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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