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''The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.''
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Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. "Hint and Suggestion," Grooks (1966).
Admonitory grook addressed to youth.
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''They're busy making bigger roads,
and better roads and more,
so that people can discover
even faster than before
that everything is everywhere alike.''
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Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. Road Sense, in Grooks (1966).
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''The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.''
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Piet Hein (b. 1905), Dutch inventor, poet. "The Road to Wisdom," Grooks (1966).
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