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One Quotes by Clifton Fadiman
- The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
- A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
- To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on…
- By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
- There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when…
- One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
- One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
- One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, butalmost the exact contraryin one idea. When he erects this…
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