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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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Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- 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

Motivational Quote

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

Sad Quote

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

Friend Quote

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

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