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"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."
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"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."
"I'm the king of bad ideas."
"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."
"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."
"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."
"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."
"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
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