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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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