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Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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