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• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
• I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition…
• Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who…
• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
• Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
• Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
• Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour,…
• A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to…
• Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
• There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

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