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  1. "If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny." - Steven Wright
  2. "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer
  3. "A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind." - John Jay Chapman
  4. "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies" - Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. "How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there any danger of their coming true." - Logan Pearsall Smith
  6. "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
  7. "Our doubts are traitors, which make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt" - William Shakespeare
  8. "God gives himself to men as powerful or perfect - it is for them to choose."
  9. "The mischief is just the same to the country whether I am smiled into a corrupt choice or frowned into a corrupt choice." - Sydney Smith
  10. "Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong." - Yiddish proverb
  11. "A book is a mirror: if an ass looks into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  12. "I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel." - L. P. Smith
  13. "He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none." - George Bernard Shaw
  14. "Not sixteen percent of the human race is, or ever has been, engaged in any of the kinds of activity at which they excel."
  15. "Love is ever rewarded either with the reciprocal, or with an inward and secret contempt." - Francis Bacon
  16. "He... met every kind of person except the ordinary person. He knew everybody, so to speak, except everybody." - G.K. Chesterton
  17. "The longing to be primitive is a disease of culture; it is archaism in morals. To be so preoccupied with vitality is a symptom of anaemia."
  18. "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice offers to virtue." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  19. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
  20. "He that leaveth nothing to chance will do very few things ill, but he will do very few things." - Lord Halifax