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"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."

"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."

"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."

"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."

"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."

"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."

"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."

"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."

"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist."

"As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other."

"I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy."

"I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent."

"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."

"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."

"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."

"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."

"In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury."
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