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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."
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