A work of real merit finds favor at last.
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The traveled mind is the universal mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.Amos Bronson Alcott
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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