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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
-Jean Cocteau
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Here is URL to a collection of quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/q141129.htmlHere is Emily Dickinson on Luck: Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. By comparison, Cocteau is definitely droll.(Definition: amusing in odd or dry way.) Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur No humor there. I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get. Sam Shoen ~
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Howya Dr Bill
No, but "the peppered mind flavours chance" might sound hillarious after a few rums down at Slasher's Bar.
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I dunno, tsuwm, I thought this one was pretty droll:
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
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I have to admit above Bierce quote baffles me. How can education disguise from the foolish their lack of undeerstanding?
P.S. Dear Drow: I didn't get your point.
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Dr Bill,
The quote seems to me to be related to:
"The more you learn, the more you learn there is to learn"
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"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
In other words, the wise know they'll never understand everything. A little education may cause the foolish to think they understand it all.
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Dear GTed: I have heard of custom of putting pepper under carriage horses' tails to make their gait more stylish. Not sure that a peppered mind would perform better. A jalapeņo'd tongue chokes my voice.
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Trouble is, GT, after a few rums in Slashers, who knows what your mind - and other parts - might be peppered with?
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This quote from "Essay on Criticism" is one of my favorites, but I like the context too.
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing.
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
while drinking largely sobers us again."
etc.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/pope2.html
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