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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
[ Soldier ]
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
[ Instinct ]
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
[ Age and Aging ]
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A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
[ Silence ]
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
[ Conversation ]
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
[ Beauty ]
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
[ Experts ]
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
[ Theory ]
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
[ Work ]
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
[ History and Historians ]
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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
[ Controversy ]
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
[ Fame ]
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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
[ America ]
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
[ Change ]
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
[ Reputation ]
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
[ Life and Living ]
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
[ Wisdom ]
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
[ Loneliness ]
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
[ Faith ]
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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
[ Knowledge ]
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
[ Language ]
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
[ Love ]
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
[ Retirement ]
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Man has will, but woman has her way.
[ Will and Will Power ]
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
[ Ideas ]
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
[ Commonplace ]
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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
[ Books - Reading ]
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
[ Opinions ]
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
[ Children ]
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
[ Trust ]
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
[ Truth ]
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
[ Advertising ]
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
[ Sin ]
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
[ Society ]
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
[ Conceit ]
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