The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out of the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who cometh sound out of the school of severity and restraint.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith
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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery
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Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.
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And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other peoples flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.
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