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"He changes his opinions as he does his friends, and much on the same account. He has no comfort in fixed principles; …"

"Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge."

"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts."

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"Scholars, like princes, may learn something by being incognito. Yet we see those who cannot go into a bookseller's sh…"

"Any one who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may con…"

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."

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"Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues him…"