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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive."

"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."

"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
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