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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.



Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.



The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions



Apology is only egotism wrong side out.



I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.



The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.



The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.



Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.



Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.



Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.



Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.



I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.



A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.



Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.



Old age is fifteen years older than I am.







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