I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
Albert J. Nock
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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Albert J. Nock
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
Albert J. Nock
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
Albert J. Nock
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Albert J. Nock
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
Albert J. Nock
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Albert J. Nock
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Acquaintance,
Am,
Any,
Constantly,
Difficult,
Easy,
Formal,
Half,
Hold,
I Am,
Manner,
Meet,
Off,
Old People,
Said,
Showing,
Social,
Tending,
Unresponsive,
Unwilling,
Way,
Which
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Acquaintance,
Am,
Any,
Constantly,
Difficult,
Easy,
Formal,
Half,
Hold,
Manner,
Meet,
Off,
Said,
Showing,
Social,
Tending,
Unwilling,
Way,
Which
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