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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man