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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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