What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
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- You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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