It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

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