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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), Lawrence Daily Journal-World
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
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Russian proverb
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Shelley
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
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Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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