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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#any #business #consulting #control #embrace

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #mediocrity #tendency #things

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#grass #i #i love #long #love

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#cook #generous #i #i think #man

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#dazzling #leo #parkinson #sadly #sorts

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#four #i #shopping #today #went

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#burn #clueless #everything #feeling #going

Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes