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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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Personal Development

"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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Personal Development

"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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Personal Development

"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Funny

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
Motivation

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
Learning

"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values

"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."
Communication

"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."
Self

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Society
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