The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation
Clarence Day
Source: Wikipedia
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
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If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
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Ants are good citizens they place group interests first
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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways
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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else- fallen angels - we have indeed fallen far
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
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