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Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.