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Bushido: The Soul of Japan

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Quotes

  • Anna Belousovahas quoted2 years ago
    among flowers the cherry is queen, so among men the samurai is lord
  • Anna Belousovahas quoted2 years ago
    Democracy may make self-confident retorts to such a statement and fling back the question—"When Adam delved and Eve span, where then was the gentleman?" All the more pity that a gentleman was not present in Eden! The first parents missed him sorely and paid a high price for his absence. Had he been there, not only would the garden have been more tastefully dressed, but they would have learned without painful experience that disobedience to Jehovah was disloyalty and dishonor, treason and rebellion.
  • Anna Belousovahas quoted2 years ago
    There needs but one wise man in a company, and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion," says Emerson. No social class or caste can resist the diffusive power of moral influence.

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