Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
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A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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