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We are all of us the worse for too much solitude. A man who shuts himself up from his kind becomes at last unfit for society; he acquires a hundred habits and opinions incompatible with life among men, and the cure for this evil is not to be found in the society of fools, but in that of the wise.
— William Hazlitt, Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners (1821)

1mo ago

We are all of us the worse for too much solitude. A man who shuts himself up from the world falls into an exaggerated estimate of his own importance, and loses the power of measuring himself by his fellows.

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The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind

I've spent years missing out on what I presume to be a never-ending group chat in which my closest friends, their siblings, one guy someone worked with for a summer in college, and another whom we randomly met at a bachelor party weekend all roast one another in ways that feel, at least occasionally, like love.

3mo ago

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