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"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
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"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time."
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"Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?"
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"Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect."
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"No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!"
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"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other."
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"He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple."
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"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Time
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
Man
"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Idleness
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
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