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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#fills #knowledge #large #merely #small

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#each #lovers #other #over #period

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#bother #calling #hear #life #middle

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#born #embarrassing #fact #got #lady

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#effective #idea #into #kill #only

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#consists #impulses #knowing #living #made

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#feelings #first #just #like #our

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#excluded #expect #family #hold #intercourse

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty