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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our...
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely...
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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Much that passes for education … is not education at all but ritual. The...
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.