What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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