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“ It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation. ”

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If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

~ Russell Kirk

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

~ Russell Kirk

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

~ Russell Kirk

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.

~ Russell Kirk