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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Become Dictatorship Liberty License Near
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Basis Even Excess Government Perish Principle Tend
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Anarchy As Complete Die Liberty Soon
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Desert Expand Ignorance Knowledge Mirage Our Receding
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Act Against Country Divide Machine Majority Minority Person Political United
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Ago Discovery Education Everything Ignorance Knew Know Now Own Progressive Sixty Yera
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Again Become Cecome Every Hatred Just Only Respectable Vice Virtue Wartime
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art Begin End Every Science Philosophy
We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Best Century Event Inform Last Sixty
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Been Eight Free Hundred Only Past Sixty Two War Year
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Guess History Most Prejudice Rest
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Certainty Fatal Inquiry
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Four Hur Last Little Most Much Six Spend Thousand Time Too Twenty Year

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