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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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The poet ... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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Relationship Quote

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

Funny Quote

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

- Albert Einstein

Wisdom Quote

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

- Bob Marley

Life Quote

Life is a journey, not a destination.

- Anonymous

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