Answers to Cryptoquotes: Cryptograms of Sayings by Famous People

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1. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
-Mark Twain

3. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-Oscar Wilde

4. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

5. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-Confucius

6. I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
-George Bernard Shaw

7. The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
-Leonardo DaVinci

8. Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
-Goya

9. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
-Robert E. Lee

10. The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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