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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.



Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.



Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.



Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be



The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.



The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.



The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.



Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.



We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.



If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?



The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face



We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."



Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?



Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.



Happiness is a direction, not a place.








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