To be great is to be misunderstood.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
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