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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
"Life is all about discovery."
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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