The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

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Dogs don't make mistakes.

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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You see, but you do not observe.

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