A blocked path also offers guidance.
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Mason Cooley

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
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'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
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Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
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Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
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