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" An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. "

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" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "

" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. "

" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "

" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

" Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. "

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "

" I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. "

" Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. "

" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "

" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "

" A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. "

" Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. "

" Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. "