Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
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