Every library should try to be complete on something if it were only the history of pinheads.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments and associations, are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.