"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ***** that carries gold and eats thistles."

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Richard Burton

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“Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.”
“To understand is to invent.”

Source : Jean Piaget (1977). “Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge”
“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”
“Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.”
“What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.”
“An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.”
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”
“When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.”

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