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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.


Garrett Hardin


#behavior #cesspool #commons #conditions #does

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.


Elizabeth Hardwick


#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.


G. H. Hardy


#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.


Thomas Hardy


#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.


Thomas Hardy


#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.


Thomas Hardy


#alone #galileo #had #him #inquisition

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.


Thomas Hardy


#aged #beautiful #been #grave #her

Fear is the mother of foresight.


Thomas Hardy


#foresight #mother

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.


Thomas Hardy


#constitution #her #inconsistencies #like #owes

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.


Thomas Hardy


#blending #courage #moral #moral courage #physical






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