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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
Age
"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
Talent
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
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"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
Nothing
"Humility is truth."
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"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
Old
"To know nothing is the happiest life."
Life
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
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"The desire to write grows with writing."
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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