We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, And the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable And somewhat less ignorant than it was before he enter.
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
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Let us have 'sweet girl graduates' by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom and the 'golden hair' will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.
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