General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

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