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In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and ho...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

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But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

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The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

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