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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."


"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."


"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."


"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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