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George Mikes reflections

I am no cynic, and do believe in quite a few things: for example, in the power of books written …

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – and I don’t think there really is …

Basically I’m a reformer, a philosophical hacker and a fighter against stupidity, violence, racism, ignorance, social disparities and the old …

When she’s abandoned her moral center and teachings…when she’s cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor…when I have …

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of …

The Three Stages of Cultivation — The first is the primitive stage. It is a stage of original ignorance in …

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. ‘Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with …