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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them."
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