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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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O proud philanthropist, your hope is vainTo get by giving what you lost by gain.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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