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David Hume
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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Alan King
If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.
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Sebastian Brant
The world loves to be deceived.
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W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
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Juvenal
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
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Gore Vidal
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Frederick William Robertson
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
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William Shakespeare
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
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