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Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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