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“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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― As You Like It
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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