Quote #76

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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  1. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
  2. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
  3. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
  4. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
  5. People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the s…
  6. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  7. When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself t…
  8. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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