A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.G. C. Lichtenberg
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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The second sight possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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The writer who can't at times throw away a thought about which another would have written dissertations, unworried whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
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