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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

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