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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Great minds think alike.

Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.