John Updike
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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.