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"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it."
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"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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