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A Man With A Scant Vocabulary Will Almost Certainly Be A Weak Thinker. The Richer And More Copious One's Vocabulary And The Greater One's Awareness Of Fine Distinctions And Subtle Nuances Of Meaning, The More Fertile And Precise Is Likely To Be One's Thinking. Knowledge Of Things And Knowledge Of The Words For Them Grow Together. If You Do Not Know The Words, You Can Hardly Know The Thing.

Liberty Is The Essential Basis, The Sine Qua Non, Of Morality.

The Envious Are More Likely To Be Mollified By Seeing Others Deprived Of Some Advantage Than By Gaining It For Themselves. It Is Not What They Lack That Chiefly Troubles Them, But What Others Have.

The Envious Are Not Satisfied With Equality; They Secretly Yearn For Superiority And Revenge. In The French Revolution Of 1848, A Woman Coal-heaver Is Said To Have Remarked To A Richly Dressed Lady: 'yes, Madam, Everything's Going To Be Equal Now; I Shall Go In Silks And You'll Carry Coal.'

Economics Is Haunted By More Fallacies Than Any Other Study Known To Man. This Is No Accident. The Inherent Difficulties Of The Subject Would Be Great Enough In Any Case, But They Are Multiplied A Thousandfold By A Factor That Is Insignificant In, Say, Physics, Mathematics Or Medicine - The Special Pleading Of Selfish Interests.