Sublime

rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet.

conchology,

There was no better way to seem trustworthy than to be liked by a dog, and there was no better way to convince a dog to like you than bribery.

She was tempted to flip them down and see if they could face-rec this Larry and if so find out who his editor was—or more likely what edit stream he subscribed to and what particular flavor of post-reality it was pumping into his mind.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.

He has that real disadvantage which has arisen out of the modern worship of progress and novelty; and he thinks anything odd and new must be an advance.