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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Men ought to pay a great deal more attention to substance and realities than to ceremonies.
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…considering the imbecility of human judgment and the difficulty of choice in new and doubtful things…it is much easier and pleasanter to follow than to guide [others].
One of the greatest pieces of good fortune a man can have is the chance to make something he has done in his own
