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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

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.

- Anonymous

Funny Quote

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

- G. K. Chesterton

Wise Quote

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Peace Quote

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

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