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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

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Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

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The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse…

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

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There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

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