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The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice. (Henry Hazlitt)[][]
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. (Wendell L. Wilkie)[][]
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. (Oscar Wilde)[][]
A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)[][]
Too much of a good thing can be taxing. (Mae West)[][]
I was pure as the driven snow, then I drifted. (Mae West)[][]
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. (H. G. Wells)[][]
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. (Justus von Liebig)[][]
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. (Voltaire)[][]
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. (Voltaire)[][]
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. (Voltaire)[][]
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. (Vergil)[][]
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. (Mark Twain)[][]
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. (Mark Twain)[][]
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. (Mark Twain)[][]
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain)[][]
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. (Mark Twain)[][]
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. (Solomon Trismosin)[][]
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. (Arnold J. Toynbee)[][]
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. (Bolingbroke)[][]
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. (Thucydides)[][]
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. (Henry David Thoreau)[][]
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. (Terence)[][]
Property is not theft, but a good deal of theft becomes property. (Richard H. Tawney)[][]
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. (The Talmud)[][]
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement. (Tacitus)[][]
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. (Publilius Syrus)[][]
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. (Publilius Syrus)[][]
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. (Adlai Stevenson)[][]
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. (Sterne)[][]
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