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I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

— Petronius Attributed

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A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

With the mad it is necessary to be mad, unless you would be left all alone.

One good turn deserves another.

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The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.

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