You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women, but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.William Lyon Phelps
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
William Lyon Phelps
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
William Lyon Phelps
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
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