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"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
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