Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1736 ed.)

Dave — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:48:37 +0000

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1736 ed.)
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Lovecraft, H. P. -- Letter (1936-08) to Catherine L. Moore

Dave — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:28:09 +0000

As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their yes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously ) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license, or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical “American heritage” — economic oversight, price-fixing, “government in business”, etc. recur often in American colonial history) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American fabulist [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
Letter (1936-08) to Catherine L. Moore
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Franklin, Benjamin -- Poor Richard (1736 ed.)

Lovecraft, H. P. -- Letter (1936-08) to Catherine L. Moore