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- Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.
- James Ramsey
- If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.
- Author Unknown
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
- Harold Sherman
- There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
- Titus Plautus
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
- Swami Brahnmananda
- One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
- Sterne
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
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