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The demand for continuity is the most conservative of all human instincts, and yet without the power to change, continuity itself becomes a form of death.

— Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics (1872)
4w ago

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty, and the better for a master. What we call the tyranny of words is only the tyranny of a master we have not yet found.

4mo ago

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.

4mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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