History is but a confused heap of facts.
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.Lord Chesterfield
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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