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“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”

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“Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.”

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“The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly… "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.”

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“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

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“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”

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