The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck
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Left identitarians who think of themselves as radical creatures, contesting this and transgressing that, have become like buttoned-up Protestant schoolmarms when it comes to the English language, parsing every conversation for immodest locutions and rapping the knuckles of those who inadvertently use them.
~ Mark Lilla
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
― Walter Benjamin
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Amongst other English prophets, a belief in whose power has not been entirely effaced by the light of advancing knowledge, is Robert Nixon, the Cheshire idiot, a contemporary of Mother Shipton. The popular accounts of this man say, that he was born of poor parents, not far from Vale Royal, on the edge of the forest of Delamere.
~ Charles MacKay
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