He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Conjecture as to things useful, is good but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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