“Our lives, in great part, are made up of events that ordinarily would not occur.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“Men are prone to imagine that because some of the censure they receive is unmerited, it is all unjustly bestowed.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“To have an opinion is to be unpopular; to have no opinion is to be contemptible.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“There is a sad infinity, called the world, in which a man can never distinguish true from pretended friends, except he have the misfortune of being covered with calumny and reproach.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“Of pride and interest, pride is the greater liar.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“The slave for whom there is the least hope of freedom is the slave of an idea.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“Wit is wisdom’s playground.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“There are virtues that, adhered to too strictly or carried too far, become vices.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“He argues best who never contradicts.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“How wise we would all be, could we but recall, upon occasion, the thoughts we have forgotten.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes