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"A man will turn over half a library to make one book."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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