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There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
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You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
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a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
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Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
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We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
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The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
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Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.