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«The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair»
«Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.»
«Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.»
«One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been»
«We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be»
«Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.»
«What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.»
«Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.»
«The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating»
«Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.»

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