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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.


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I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.



The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.



In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.



Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.



The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.



This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.



Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.



Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!



Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.



When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.





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To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you



Come now. let us reason together.

Come now. let us reason together.



A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.



I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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