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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

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Worship is transcendent wonder.

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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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Silence is more eloquent than words.

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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