"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."

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"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."

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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

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"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."

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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."

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"Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away."

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"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

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"It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."

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"Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."

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"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge."

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"And we forget because we must and not because we will."

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