When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

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This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

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