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Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly...
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In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou...
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in...