Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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

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