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"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

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"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."

"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."

"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."

"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."

"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."

"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."

"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
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