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• ‟ The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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• ‟ Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

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• ‟ I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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• ‟ Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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• ‟ Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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• ‟ The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

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• ‟ A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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