"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on distrust
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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"Being is the great explainer."

Thoreau, Henry David on existence
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on experience
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"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."

Marx, Groucho on leadership
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"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member."

Marx, Groucho on association
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"Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor   

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on vision
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Marx, Groucho on dogs
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