Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

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