You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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A goal without a plan is a dream.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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