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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

"Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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