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Quote by Bertrand Russell
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I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not. – Horace

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams

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They say its better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. – Conor Oberst

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