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"To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance."
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."

"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."
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"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."

"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

"God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends."

"Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself."

"He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows."
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