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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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