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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29th, 1809

Died: October 7th, 1894

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