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Many branches of knowledge exist in our world that are unknown to theory and untaught in schools.
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We need not wade into the current of Niagara Falls unless we please; but, after we have waded in we must thereafter be governed by the course and force of the stream.
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In every particular in which a picture constitutes a sight that is not identical with the sight represented, the picture will fail to communicate the represented object.
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The confectionary was useful enough to make its destruction eminently foolish; and fools were numerous enough to make its destruction eminently popular. Thus reasoned the emperor.
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All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [generally and incorrectly] reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.
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War and fights, like courtship and kisses, are seldom interesting except to the actors and their connexions; hence I will not burden my readers with the military operations of these remote regions.
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Alexander Bryan Johnson
Born:
May 29, 1786
Died:
September 9, 1867
(aged 81)
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