It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, And good for either the work of the other.
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