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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."
"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
Explore more quotes by William Shenstone
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
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