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Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
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The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
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