By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAlmost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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