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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are read more
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown.
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well read more
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free read more
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze read more
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.
