The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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