"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

Swift, Jonathan on death
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"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging   

"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to."

Swift, Jonathan on exaggeration   

"I don’t have to be careful I’ve got a gun! "

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"He that dies pays all his debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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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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"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."

Marx, Groucho on birth
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"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor
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"I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys."

Dickens, Charles on boys   

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on destiny
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Seeing is believing,but believing is seeing."

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"Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth."

Fuller, Thomas on truth   

"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world."

Archimedes on power
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"Eureka! I've got it."

Archimedes on ideas
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"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

Simpson, Homer on vision
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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"Today,man knows the price of everything,and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on   

"The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar."

Marx, Groucho on autobiography   

"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

Marx, Groucho on people
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on experience
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

Plato on education
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"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."

Plato on education   

"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

Plato on deception
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."

Hickson, William E. on trying
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"Experienceis only the name we give to our mistakes"

Wilde, Oscar on   

"Those who don't believe in magic,shall never find it."

Dahl, Roald on   

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on fear
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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on life
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"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on painters and painting
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."

Marx, Groucho on marriage
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