Paul Eldridge quotes
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“We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.”
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“To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.”
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“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”
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“With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.”
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“Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.”
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“It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.”
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“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.”
-- Paul EldridgeSource : The Reader's Digest, Volume 82, February 1963.
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“Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.”
-- Paul EldridgeSource : Maxims for a Modern Man 2194
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“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”
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“Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.”
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“To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.”
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“A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.”
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“We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.”
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“There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.”
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“If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.”
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“History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.”
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“Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.”
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“Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.”
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