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- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
- William Melbourne
- Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment; there are consequences.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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