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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.

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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

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