"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."
-Norman Douglas
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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.“
-Norman Douglas
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"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
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"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."
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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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