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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"a wife who attempts to poison her husband in England is burnt at the stake, for if such conduct spread, no man would be safe from his wife." #Kant 'Lectures on Ethics'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?" #Jefferson

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"but honesty is not merit; it is the minimum of morality, because as soon as it is lacking in the least degree the man becomes a rogue." #Kant 'Lectures on Ethics'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.” William Tecumseh #Sherman 1864

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it's rude to talk about yourself and rude to ask questions about others, so I'm not much of a conversationalist.

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair." #Milton

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"the word of a Wooster is his bond and all that sort of rot" #Wodehouse 'The Inimitable Jeeves'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"the colonel of a Wisconsin regiment made a short speech to the men who would lead the third assault... "You will not fire a gun and you will not stop until you get the order to halt." He paused briefly, then added: "You will never get that order."" #ShelbyFoote

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Journalist Charles Dana on US Grant: "Not a great man except morally; not an original or brilliant man, but sincere, thoughtful, deep, and gifted with courage that never faltered." #ShelbyFoote

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"when a delegation came to protest Grant's alleged insobriety [Lincoln] put these civilians off with the remark, "If I knew what brand of whiskey he drinks I would send a barrel or so to some other generals."" #Foote

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"and as she had never thought or done anything mortally guilty herself, she had not that abhorrence for wickedness which distinguishes moralists much more knowing." #Thackeray 'Vanity Fair'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Sir: Yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of Commissioners, to settle terms of Capitulation is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." #Grant at Ft Donelson 1862

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name." #Thackeray 'Vanity Fair'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"in all animals other than man there there is no thinking or calculation but only imagination." #Aristotle 'On the Soul'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Suppose all the rest of our flesh was sensitive to flavor" #Aristotle 'On the Soul'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"if we are to distinguish and identify organs according to their functions, the roots of plants are analogous to the head in animals." #Aristotle 'On the soul'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire." #Thackery Vanity Fair

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Make up your mind Cambridge University Press

This volume is the first ever English Translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum...

The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy...

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Reason inevitably creates objects for itself. Hence everything that thinks has a God." #Kant Opus Postumum

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Maybe I could think of a solution for my insomnia if I weren't so tired

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"There is a God in the soul of man. The question is whether he is also in nature." #Kant Opus Postumum

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best——I’m sure it is the most religious——for I begin with writing the first sentence——and trusting to Almighty God for the second." #TristramShandy

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Maybe this wildfire smoke will cure my diarrhea

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"How she owns that it is she and not the man who is guilty; how she takes all the faults on her side; how she courts in a manner punishment for the wrongs which she has not committed and persists in shielding the real culprit!" 'Vanity Fair'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"For they killed him in his kindness, In their madness and their blindness. And his blood is on their hand. There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand: Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand." #Melville 'The Martyr'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"But Almighty God has granted to him [Lincoln] that clearness of vision which he gives to the true-hearted, and enabled him to set his honest foot in that promised land of freedom which is to be the patrimony of all men" Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"'T is wonderful what power is, and how ill it is used, and how its ill use makes life mean, and the sunshine dark." Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in" #Lincoln 1865

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"I sincerely wish that I was a more devoted man than I am." #Lincoln 1863

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." #Lincoln 1862

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman. Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives. It was a consuming vexation to my father, that my mother never asked the meaning of a thing she did not understand." #TristramShandy

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." #Lincoln 1860

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"The ancient Goths...had all of them a wise custom of debating everything of importance to their state, twice; that is,—once drunk, and once sober:——Drunk,—that their councils might not want vigour;——and sober—that they might not want discretion." #TristramShandy

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"Henry Clay once said of a class of men who would repress all tendencies to liberty and ultimate emancipation that they must, if they would do this, go back to the era of our Independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return" #Lincoln 1858

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"those old men say that 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'... that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation... as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are." #Lincoln

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'All men are created equal' "meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated" #Lincoln 1857

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people do crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." #Lincoln 1855

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now... we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie". The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day--for burning fire-crackers!!!" #Lincoln 1855

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving." #Lincoln 1854

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

"if it shall become necessary, to repel invasion, the President may... invade the territory of another country and... the President is to be the sole judge... your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood." #Lincoln 1848

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world... and I standing up boldly, alone, and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors." #Lincoln 1839

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others." Lincoln 1838 1/3

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"... my favorite cartoon superhero, Wile E. Coyote ... " -Allen Wood

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#Pliny the younger is an inspiration to all of us mediocrities.

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Semen solidifies by refrigeration" #Aristotle 'Meteorology'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"we must think that the earth is affected as we often are after urinating - for a sort of tremor runs through the body as the wind returns inward from without" #Aristotle explaining earthquakes in 'Meteorology'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"For the same opinions appear in cycles among men not once nor twice nor occasionally, but infinity often." #Aristotle, 'Meteorology'

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." -Thomas #Paine

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Display Name @greatuserhandle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"There is too much corruption, even in this infant age of our republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous." - John Adams

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