"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.“
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"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
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"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
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"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."
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