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John Ciardi
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Homer, The Iliad
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
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Robert Frost
Anything more than the truth would be too much.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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Anton Chekhov
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
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Author Unknown
It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
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Henry Louis Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
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Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
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Prince Charles
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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