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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do