Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.