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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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