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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."

"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."
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