I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

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