Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is, then, in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.William Lyon Phelps
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
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