Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without
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Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a ma
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Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each ot
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People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts." They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who do
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determi
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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