زیرک و دانا

زیرک و داناست، اما نیست نیست تا فرشته لا نشد اهریمنی است

Talent and Money

Gania: Once I am rich, I shall be a genius, an extremely original man. One of the vilest and most hateful things connected with money is that it can buy even talent; and will do so as long as the world lasts.

A new idea

The regenerating passion by which we were animated in the student group has become an ideology, a network of fixed ideas, a cobweb. That is the proof that there is no escape for you, either. And you are only at the beginning of the parabola. That is the destiny of every new idea. It is crystallized in the formulas so that it may be propagated. it is entrusted to a body of interpreters so that it may be preserved. That body is prudently recruited, sometimes specifically paid for its task, and it subject to a superior authority whose duty it is to resolve doubts and suppress deviations from the line indicated by the masters. This every new idea invariably ends by becoming fixed, inflexible, parasitical, and reactionary.

...and both of them took on about that dead tanner like they'd lost the twelve disciples. Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

praying

...she said the thing a body could get by praying for it was "spiritual gifts." This was too many for me, but she told me what she meant-I must help other people, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself. This was including Miss Watson, as I took it. I went out in the woods and turned it over in my mind a long time, but I couldn't see no advantage about it-except for the other people-so at last I reckoned I wouldn't worry about it anymore, but just let it go.

nigger!

"Good gracious! anybody hurt?"

"No'm. Killed a nigger."

"Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt."