Quote #157

There can hardly be stranger wares in the world than books: printed by people who do not understand them; sold by people who do not understand them; bound, reviewed and read by people who do not understand them; and now even written by people who do not understand them.

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  1. There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.
  2. There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.
  3. Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
  4. Those who never have time do least.
  5. The preaching in the churches does not make the lightning rods on them unnecessary.
  6. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.
  7. The late M. who had a Catholic maid, once told me entirely bona fide: This person is a Catholic, it is true, but she is an honest, good sou…
  8. We must not seek to abstract from the busts of the great Greeks and Romans rules for the visible form of genius as long as we cannot contra…

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