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The very fact that a Line is visible implies that it possesses yet another Dimension.
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Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
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Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
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Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..
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I was now under a strong temptation to rush blindly at my Visitor and to precipitate him into Space, or out of Flatland, anywhere, so that I could get rid of him...
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In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! Let us rather resolve that our ambition shall soar with our corporal ascent.
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Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
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Born:
December 20, 1838
Died:
October 12, 1926
(aged 87)
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