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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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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."

"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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