"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

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"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

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"No one knows a man better than himself."

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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."

Charles Lamb, English Critic

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"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

Life

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."

"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."

"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die."

"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."