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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
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If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
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Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
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Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.
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Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
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Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
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Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
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Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.
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To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
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The present necessarily betrays the past.
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Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
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Everything changes as it is written down.
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Truth is a necessary phantom.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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Our troubles keep us going.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
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My thought has been shaped by books my desires by pictures.
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