Manipulation and self-interest suffused relations between the sexes even when gentlemen strode the earth; a few pages of Edith Wharton should disabuse any doubters on that score.
The lengthy article on modern dating, Love in the Time of Darwinism, at City Journal raised several reaction in me while I was reading it.
The only thing I reacted [...]
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke, Of Reading
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are [...]
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Just because yours is smaller doesn’t make you less of a man. Unless we’re talking about your brain.
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Extracted from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore, Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes.
As by the shore, at break of day,
A vanquished chief expiring lay,
Upon the sands, with broken sword,
He traced his farewell to the free;
And there the last unfinished word
He dying wrote, was “Liberty!”
At night a sea-bird shrieked the knell
Of him who thus [...]
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