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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."

"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."

"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."

"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."

"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."

"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."


"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."
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