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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

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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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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1868

Died: February 7th, 1952

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