Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.

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