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/ page 244 of 1205 /To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
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Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Science
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. Science
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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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Talking is like playing the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Wisdom
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