The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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Get your mind accustomed to doubting and your heart to being conciliatory.
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Now that education is so easy, men are drilled for greatness, just as dogs are trained to retrieve. In this way we've discovered a new sort of genius, those great at being drilled. These are the people who are mainly spoiling the market.
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