“The average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.” — Thomas Edison
Quotations
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“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would indeed be a terrible affliction.” — Jean de la Bruyère
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“I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of the gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.” — Sir George Sitwell
Misc
- Canada’s coastline is six times as long as Australia’s.
- Rudyard Kipling invented snow golf.
- ENUMERATION = MOUNTAINEER
- Can you see your eyes move in a mirror?
- 26364 = 263 × 6/4
- “I want death to find me planting my cabbages.” — Montaigne
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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.” — John Ruskin
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“Sleep is death enjoyed.” — Friedrich Hebbel
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- Hastie Love was convicted of rape in Tennessee in 1968.
- Zebra stripes are white.
- 14641 = (1 + 4 + 6)4 × 1
- Spain’s national anthem has no words.
- LION + TIGER = LOITERING
- “Character is that which can do without success.” — Emerson
Backwards
“The whole scheme of things is turned wrong end to. Life should begin with age & its privileges and accumulations, & end with youth & its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. As things are now, when in youth a dollar would bring a hundred pleasures, you can’t have it. When you are old, you get it & there is nothing worth buying with it then. It’s an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.”
— Mark Twain, letter to Edward Dimmitt, July 19, 1901
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because it pleases him, and it pleases him because it is beautiful. Were nature not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, life would not be worth living.” — Henri Poincaré
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“Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.” — Gertrude Stein