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No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
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All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Elihu Burritt
Born:
1811
Died:
March 6, 1879
(aged 68)
Bio:
Elihu Burritt was an American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist.
Known for:
Sparks from the anvil (1846)
Walk from London to Land's End and back (1865)
A Sanskrit Handbook for the Fireside (1876)
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