Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memories imagination old sentiments and associations are more readily reached through the sense of

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.

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 fa

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

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    The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

    The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

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