One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.
Well done is better than well said.
To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.
Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.