“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.