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The key issues, such as borders, security, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees, have been churned over to the point of exhaustion over some four decades.

Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to certain of his fellow-citizens (who are suffering to vote for him!) the little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in), they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and so tarred and feathered him and rode him on a rail, and then advised him to leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will he do this?

The first of these is correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue. The quite shocking slovenliness and vulgarity of much of the spoken English, as well as not a little of the written English, which one hears and sees, proves beyond peradventure that years of attendance upon schools and college that are thought to be respectable have produced no impression. When one hears English well spoken, with pure diction, correct pronunciation, and an almost unconscious choice of the right word, he recognizes it at once. How much easier he finds it to imitate English of the other sort!

I remember one dreadful famine winter the thing that kept me laughing and still a child was "Pickwick Papers". by Pearl S Buch

A reasonable amount of learning must of course accompany an education, but, after all, that amount need not be so very great in any one field.

A third trait of the educated man is the power and habit of reflection. Human beings for the most part live wholly on the surface or far beyond the present moment and that part of the future which is quickly to follow it. They do not read those works of prose and poetry which have become classic because they reveal power and habit of reflection and induce that power and habit in others. When one reflects long enough to ask the question “how”, he is on the way to knowing something about science. When he reflects long enough to ask the question “why”, he may, if he persists, even become a philosopher.

If you feel like a feel because you’ve put off sending a card, write a note that says, “I should have done this two weeks ago, but I didn’t want to let another day go by without telling you how much I enjoyed your party. “ It’s much better than not writing at all.

My wife, an immigrant who took a series of law classes at France’s University of Nice as an undergraduate, had a better grasp of the law upon graduating than I did, even though she possesses only a degree in languages (with just a concentration in law), while I have a prestigious American law degree.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.

He loves to brag about his love-making in the stockrooms. "Even standing up during the lunch hour!" he boasts.

He parties it up with a different starlet every night.

and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, a man of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

From Emerson's Wealth

With relatives, this time may be only a couple of hours every other Sunday afternoon, if that much.

The strong race is strong on these terms. The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence, and, in its special modification, pecuniary independence. No reliance for bread and games on the government, no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief, no marrying-on, -- no system of clientship suits them; but every man must pay his scot.

From Ralph Emerson's Wealth

The strong race is strong on these terms. The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence, and, in its special modification, pecuniary independence. No reliance for bread and games on the government, no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief, no marrying-on, -- no system of clientship suits them; but every man must pay his scot.

From Ralph Emerson's Wealth

Every warehouse and shop-window, every fruit-tree, every thought of every hour, opens a new want to him, which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.

the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few; but will a man content himself with a hut and a handful of dried pease? He is born to be rich. He is thoroughly related; and is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet, and of more planets than his own.

Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe, up to the last secrets of art. Intimate ties subsist between thought and all production; because a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.

He (man) is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.

(Wealth)

The 27th amendment is our most recent amendment, ratified in 1992. It reads:

“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”

Beaut as a power is always conceived in relaion to men; it is not the power to do but the power to attract. It is a power that negates itself. For this power is not one that can be chosen freely--at least, not by women-or renounced without social censure.