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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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