To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.
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We think for a General to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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But on this, God's harp supernal, stretched but to be stricken once,
Hoary time is a beginner, Life a bungler, Death a dunce.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. . .
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