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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be...
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
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Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked...
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong...
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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving...
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the...
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and...
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Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which...
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.