Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook
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What is the most rigorous law of our being Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow nothing can prevent it.
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