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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for...
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Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.
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Everything has its limit–iron ore cannot be educated into gold. – 1906
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose – a...
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We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively...
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is...
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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world...
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My mother groan’d, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked,...
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Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats...
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.