Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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