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 From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.  Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail. There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman. You can never plan the future by the past. Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low. One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. What makes life dreary is want of motive. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Friends come and go, enemies linger. Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. You cannot make a crab walk straight. There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. 
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