"Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got."
-Josh Billings
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"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.“
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
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"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
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"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
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"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
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"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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