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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

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Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: September 26th, 1892

Died: November 1st, 1970

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