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Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Last Update: 4 March 2021
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