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- The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
- In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if…
- The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be…
- The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this…
- Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that…
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