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"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."

"The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all."

"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
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