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Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. – Ambrose Bierce

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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. – George Sand

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I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but Im too classy to bring that up. – Todd Barry

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My experience of the world is that things left to themselves dont get right. – Thomas Huxley

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Listening to my regular favourites – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on – I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. – Jane Asher

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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You cant take it with you when you go. – Proverb

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