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"It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."

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"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."

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"The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for."
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