“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
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“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
― A Book of Burlesques
― A Book of Burlesques
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