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There are few advantages, I'll tell you, that profit a man more than humor. Humor will draw a crowd. Humor will calm a mob or reassure a nursery school.
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by Gene Wolfe Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
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Everyone knows that we have fallen far from the brave days of the past.
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I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril, the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a...
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A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart.
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