
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
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“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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