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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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D. H. Lawrence
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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John Dryden
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Michel de Montaigne
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Mary Hirsch
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
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Thomas H. Huxley
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
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Yugoslav Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
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Edgar Lee Masters
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
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Harold Taylor
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
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Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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