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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

— Clarence Day

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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

After All (1936)

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970)

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of facts, far more than pausing at times to reflect on these facts.

The rich are not really a bad lot. We must not judge by appearances. If it weren't for their money they would be indistinguishable from the rest of us.

When eras die, their legacies
Are left to strange police.
Professors in New England guard
The glory that was Greece.

Thoughts without words (1928)

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