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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
• Ideas are the roots of creation.
• The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
• Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…
• Ideas are the root of creation.
• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are…
• Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
• Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
• Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…
• A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare…
• Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
• The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of…

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