To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

Will Durant

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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

La excitación y la emoción surgen cuando algo no se comprende. Como se entiende, uno naturalmente no se inmuta. Uno naturalmente se vuelve ecuánime.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

It is not how we live in the light that enlightens us, it is how we live in the dark.

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