True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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Moliere Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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