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"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"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."
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"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
"One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart."
"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."
"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."
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