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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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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. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the...
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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