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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. ↗

— Charles Tennyson Turner

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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ↗

— Max Eastman

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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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