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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
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"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
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"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
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