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quotes (random, meaningful, funny, true)
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity"
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it"
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts"
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn"
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again"
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish"
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self"
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend"
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever"
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top"
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read"
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it"
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains"
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there"
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish"
"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love"
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong"
"Fools rush in where fools have been before"
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"
"Never judge a book by its movie"
"Adversity does teach who your real friends are"
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint"
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway"
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