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There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowled...more

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I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dr...more