The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

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