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"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
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"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
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"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
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