Professor At The Breakfast Table
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“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
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“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
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“Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.”
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“No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.”
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“You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.”
“Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.”
“America is the only place where man is full-grown!”
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“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
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“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
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“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
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“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
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“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”
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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”
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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
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“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
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“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.”
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“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
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