True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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