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It Is Difficult To Be Funny And Great At The Same Time. Aristophanes And Moliere And Mark Twain Must Sit Below Aristotle And Bossuet And Emerson.

Men Are Able To Trust One Another, Knowing The Exact Degree Of Dishonesty They Are Entitled To Expect.

I Am What Is Called A Professor Emeritus—from The Latin E, 'out,' And Meritus, 'so He Ought To Be.

How Can You Shorten The Subject? That Stern Struggle With The Multiplication Table, For Many People Not Yet Ended In Victory, How Can You Make It Less? Square Root, As Obdurate As A Hardwood Stump In A Pasturenothing But Years Of Effort Can Extract It. You Can't Hurry The Process. Or Pass From Arithmetic To Algebra; You Can't Shoulder Your Way Past Quadratic Equations Or Ripple Through The Binomial Theorem. Instead, The Other Way; Your Feet Are Impeded In The Tangled Growth, Your Pace Slackens, You Sink And Fall Somewhere Near The Binomial Theorem With The Calculus In Sight On The Horizon.

It Was Einstein Who Made The Real Trouble. He Announced In 1905 That There Was No Such Thing As Absolute Rest. After That There Never Was.