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The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

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Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

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Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

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A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

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A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

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I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.

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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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