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Montesquieu:

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

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Dolly Parton:

It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

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Bertolt Brecht:

The camera is just as capable of lying as the typewriter.

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Napoleon Bonaparte:

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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Henry Steele Commager:

For a people to be without History, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory — condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection.

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James Reston:

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

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Samuel Smiles:

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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Edith Wharton:

Traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

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Mark Twain:

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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Rex Stout:

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

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Jonathan Swift:

The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

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G. K. Chesterton:

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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Lewis Mumford:

I’m a pessimist about probabilities; I’m an optimist about possibilities.

Aside:

I accidentally posted this a couple of days early, so you may have seen it before.

Whoops.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet.

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William Makepeace Thackery:

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! What worthy man does not keep those in mind?

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Jon Gay:

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Afterthought:

Whatever would he have thought about Facebook?

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Eugene McCarthy:

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

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Ambrose Bierce:

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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Armand Jean du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu:

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

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John Cleese:

When people say ‘I’m not a prude, but …’ what they mean is ‘I am a prude, and …’.

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