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We Call Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get…
- Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson